Yucatan Bobwhite
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| Yucatan Bobwhite | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Odontophoridae |
| Genus: | Colinus |
| Species: | C. nigrogularis |
| Binomial name | |
| Colinus nigrogularis (Gould, 1843) |
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The Yucatan Bobwhite or Black-throated Bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis) is a species of bird in the Odontophoridae family. It is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, coastal mangroves and heavily degraded former forest. A specific example of occurrence is the Petenes mangroves of the Yucatan.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International 2004. Colinus nigrogularis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
- World Wildlife Fund. 2010. Petenes mangroves. eds. Mark McGinley, C.Michael Hogan & C.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC
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