Slaty Finch

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Slaty Finch
Slaty Finch (male) with leucistic tail.
Slaty Finch (male) with leucistic tail.
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Haplospiza
Species: H. rustica
Binomial name
Haplospiza rustica
(Tschudi, 1844)

The Slaty Finch (Haplospiza rustica) is a bird species in the family Thraupidae (formerly in Emberizidae). It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

[edit] Source

Languages