Rufous-collared Sparrow
Zonotrichia capensis
Taxonomy
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
- Genus
- Zonotrichia
- eBird Code
- rucspa1
Subspecies (28)
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Zonotrichia capensis antillarum
cordillera central of Dominican Republic
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Zonotrichia capensis antofagastae
northern Chile (Tarapacá and Antofagasta)
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Zonotrichia capensis arenalensis
Andes of northern Argentina
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Zonotrichia capensis australis
breeds southern Chile and southern Argentina to Cape Horn; winters northward to Bolivia
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Zonotrichia capensis bonnetiana
southern Colombia
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Zonotrichia capensis capensis
French Guiana (lower Oyapock River) and adjacent Brazil (Amapá)
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Zonotrichia capensis carabayae
east slope of eastern Andes of Peru (Junín) to western Bolivia
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Zonotrichia capensis chilensis
Chile (Atacama to Islas Guaitecas) and Andes of southern Argentina
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Zonotrichia capensis choraules
western Argentina (Mendoza, eastern Neuquén, and Río Negro)
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Zonotrichia capensis costaricensis
mountains of Costa Rica to western Panama; Andes of Colombia, and western Venezuela
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Zonotrichia capensis huancabambae
northern and central Peru
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Zonotrichia capensis hypoleuca
southern and eastern Bolivia and northern Argentina
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Zonotrichia capensis illescasensis
northern Peru (Cerro Illescas in Piura)
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Zonotrichia capensis inaccessibilis
tepuis of southern Venezuela (Cerro de la Neblina)
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Zonotrichia capensis insularis
Aruba and Curaçao
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Zonotrichia capensis macconnelli
tepuis of southern Venezuela (Mount Roraima)
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Zonotrichia capensis markli
lowlands of northwestern Peru
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Zonotrichia capensis matutina
northeastern Brazil (Maranhão to Bahia and Mato Grosso) and adjacent eastern Bolivia
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Zonotrichia capensis novaesi
eastern Brazil (Pará)
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Zonotrichia capensis perezchinchillorum
tepuis of southern Venezuela (Amazonas)
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Zonotrichia capensis peruviensis
arid coastal Peru and west slope of Andes (La Libertad to Tacna)
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Zonotrichia capensis pulacayensis
Andes of Peru (Junín) to western Bolivia and northern Argentina
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Zonotrichia capensis roraimae
east-central Colombia (Meta) through southern and eastern Venezuela to western Guyana and northern Brazil
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Zonotrichia capensis sanborni
Andes of Chile (Coquimbo, Aconcagua) and Argentina (San Juan)
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Zonotrichia capensis septentrionalis
highlands of southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Guatemala and Honduras
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Zonotrichia capensis subtorquata
eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo) to Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina
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Zonotrichia capensis tocantinsi
eastern Brazil (lower Amazonia along Rio Tocantins)
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Zonotrichia capensis venezuelae
coastal cordillera of northern Venezuela
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.