Timberline sparrow
Appearance
Timberline sparrow | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Passerellidae |
Genus: | Spizella |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | S. b. taverneri
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Trinomial name | |
Spizella breweri taverneri Swarth & Brooks, 1925
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Synonyms | |
Spizella taverneri |
The timberline sparrow (Spizella breweri taverneri) is a taxonomically controversial American sparrow. Usually treated as a subspecies of Brewer's sparrow, it is considered a distinct species Spizella taverneri by some authorities.[who?] While the timberline sparrow recognizably differs in some details, there is little reproductive isolation between the taxa.[citation needed]
When it was still considered a species, it was listed as being of least concern by the IUCN.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ E.g. Baillie et al. (2004).
References
- Baillie, J.E.M.; Hilton-Taylor, C. & Stuart, S.N. (eds.) (2004): 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. A Global Species Assessment. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. ISBN 2-8317-0826-5
- BirdLife International (2004). "Spizella taverneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. Retrieved 27 July 2007.