Passerculus sandwichensis wetmorei van Rossem, 1938
Wetmore's savannah sparrow
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1938 or before
Rediscovered in 5 June 2016 or before
Distribution
Guatemala (western)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
van Rossem, A. J. (1938). Descriptions of twenty-one new races of Fringillidae and Icteridae from Mexico and Guatemala. Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. 58: 124-138.
Other references:
Dickinson, E. C. and Christidis, L. (eds.). (2014). The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the world, vol. 2. Fourth edn. Aves Press, Eastbourne.
Eisermann, Knut, Avendaño, Claudia and Matías, Esteban. (2017). Nesting evidence, density and vocalisations in a resident population of Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis wetmorei in Guatemala. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 137(1): 37-45.
Hubbard, J. P. 1974. Geographic variation in the Savannah Sparrows of the inland southwest, Mexico and Guatemala. Occ. Pap. Delaware Mus. Nat. Hist. 12: 1-21.
Rising, J. D. 2010. The many Savannah Sparrows. Birding 42: 44–55.
Rising, J. D. 2011. Genus Passerculus Bonaparte, 1838. Pp. 550–551 in del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D. A. (eds.) Handbook of the birds of the world, vol. 16. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Wheelwright, N. T. and Rising, J. D. (2008). Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) In Poole, A. (ed.) The birds of North America Online. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. http://bna.birds.cornell.edu.
bnaproxy.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/045 (accessed 25 March 2017).