American Bushtit

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Aegithalidae

Genus

Psaltriparus

eBird Code

bushti

Subspecies (10)

• Psaltriparus minimus californicus

  interior southern Oregon to southern California (Kern County)

• Psaltriparus minimus dimorphicus

  mountains of northwestern Mexico (Sonora to Sinaloa and northern Coahuila)

• Psaltriparus minimus grindae

  mountains of southern Baja California (Sierra de la Laguna)

• Psaltriparus minimus iulus

  mountains of northern Mexico (Durango to southern Jalisco and western Tamaulipas)

• Psaltriparus minimus melanotis

  mountains of southern Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Chiapas) to Guatemala

• Psaltriparus minimus melanurus

  coastal southern California (northern San Diego County) to northern Baja California

• Psaltriparus minimus minimus

  Pacific coast west of the Cascades (northern Oregon to southern California)

• Psaltriparus minimus personatus

  mountains of central Mexico (Michoacán to western Veracruz and Puebla)

• Psaltriparus minimus plumbeus

  eastern Oregon and eastern California to Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas

• Psaltriparus minimus saturatus

  southern British Columbia, Puget Sound lowlands, and Whidbey Island