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English Eastern Meadowlark
Scientific (Sturnella magna praticola)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Icteridae
Family (English) Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions NA, MA, SA
Breeding Range Subregions se Canada to ne Brazil
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Belize,Brazil,Canada,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba,El Salvador,French Guiana,Guatemala,Guyana, Honduras,Mexico,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Panama,Suriname,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
magna se Canada and c, e USA
monticola montane s Venezuela, the Guianas and n Brazil
praticola llanos of e Colombia and se Venezuela to Guyana and Suriname
paralios n Colombia and n, c Venezuela
meridionalis nc Colombia to nw Venezuela
subulata Panama
inexspectata Honduras and ne Nicaragua
griscomi n Yucatán (se Mexico)
mexicana se Mexico to Belize and Guatemala
alticola s Mexico to Costa Rica
saundersi se Oaxaca (s Mexico)
hoopesi s Texas (sc USA) and ne Mexico
argutula sc, se USA
hippocrepis Cuba
IUCN Status Code NT (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Lerchenstärling
French Sturnelle des prés
Chinese 东草地鹨
Japanese ヒガシマキバドリ
Russian Большой луговой трупиал
Spanish Pradero oriental
Portuguese estornela-oriental
Bird Data App text Found in open fields.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)