Sooty Fox-sparrow
Passerella unalaschcensis
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae
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The sooty fox sparrow (Passerella (iliaca) unalaschcensis) contains the darkest-colored taxa in the genus Passerella. It is currently classified as a "subspecies group" within the fox sparrow pending wider-spread acceptance of species status. It has long been suspected to be a separate evolutionary lineage due to morphological distinctness (Swarth 1920), and this is confirmed by analysis of mtDNA sequence and haplotype data (Zink 1994, Zink & Kessen 1999, Zink & Weckstein 2003).
El chingolo fuliginoso (Passerella unalaschcensis) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Passerellidae endémica del oeste de América del Norte. Anteriormente se consideraba conespecífico del chingolo zorruno. Habita en regiones costeras del oeste de Norteamérica, y cría desde las islas Aleutianas hasta el extremo noroeste de Washington.
Distribution
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