Eastern Meadowlark

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Icteridae

Genus

Sturnella

eBird Code

easmea

Subspecies (14)

• Sturnella magna alticola

  highlands of southern Mexico (Guerrero, southern Puebla, and Veracruz) to Costa Rica

• Sturnella magna argutula

  southeastern Kansas and Oklahoma to eastern USA (Carolinas to Florida)

• Sturnella magna griscomi

  southeastern Mexico (arid coastal of northern Yucatan Peninsula)

• Sturnella magna hippocrepis

  Cuba including Isla de la Juventud

• Sturnella magna hoopesi

  southern Texas (Eagle Pass) to northern Coahuila, Nuevo León, and northern Tamaulipas

• Sturnella magna inexspectata

  pine savanna of Belize, Petén of Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua

• Sturnella magna magna

  breeds southern Ontario eastward to Quebec and southward to northern Texas and northeastern Georgia; winters southeastern USA

• Sturnella magna meridionalis

  eastern Andes of Colombia to Andes of northwestern Venezuela

• Sturnella magna mexicana

  Caribbean slope of southeastern Mexico (Veracruz and Tabasco to Chiapas)

• Sturnella magna monticola

  montane southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil

• Sturnella magna paralios

  northern Colombia and savannas of western Venezuela

• Sturnella magna praticola

  llanos of eastern Colombia to southern Venezuela and southwestern Guyana

• Sturnella magna saundersi

  southern Mexico (Oaxaca)

• Sturnella magna subulata

  Pacific slope of Panama