Baird's junco (''Junco bairdi'') is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
junco
A junco , genus ''Junco'', is a small North American bird in the New World sparrow family Passerellidae. Junco systematics are still confusing after decades of research, with various authors accepting between three and twelve species. Despit ...
, a group of small, grayish
New World sparrow
New World sparrows are a group of mainly New World passerine birds, forming the family Passerellidae. They are seed-eating birds with conical bills, brown or gray in color, and many species have distinctive head patterns.
Although they share t ...
s. It is endemic to the forests in the
Sierra de la Laguna
The Sierra de la Laguna is a mountain range at the southern end of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico, and is the southernmost range of the Peninsular Ranges System.
It is located in La Paz Municipality and Los Cabos Municipality of sout ...
mountain range of the southern
Baja California Peninsula in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It was previously considered a subspecies (one of five) of the
yellow-eyed junco (''Junco phaeonotus'').
Baird's junco is one of several species of birds named for
Spencer Fullerton Baird, an American ornithologist and naturalist.
References
*Chesser, R.T., K.J. Burns, C. Cicero, J.L. Dunn, A.W. Kratter, I.J. Lovette, P.C. Rasmussen, J.V. Remsen, Jr., J.D. Rising, D.F. Stotz, and K. Winker. 2017. Fifty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithological Society's Check-list of North American birds. Auk 134: 751–773.
*Friis, G., P. Aleixandre, R. Rodriguez-Estrella, A.G. Navarro-Sigüenza, and B. Milá. 2016. Rapid postglacial diversification and long-term stasis within the songbird genus Junco: phylogeographic and phylogenomic evidence. Molecular Ecology 25: 6175–6195.
*Milá, B., P. Aleixandre, S. Alvarez-Nordström, and J. McCormack. 2016. More than meets the eye: lineage diversity and evolutionary history of dark-eyed and yellow-eyed juncos. Pages 179–198 in E.D. Ketterson and J.W. Atwell (editors), Snowbird. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
*Pieplow, N.D., and C.D. Francis. 2011. Song differences among subspecies of Yellow-eyed Juncos (''Junco phaeonotus''). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 123: 464–471.
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Baird's junco
Birds of Mexico
Baird's junco
Endemic birds of Mexico
Taxa named by Robert Ridgway