Southern Yellow Grosbeak

Golden-Bellied Grosbeak
Male in Ecuador
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Pheucticus
Species: P. chrysogaster
Binomial name
Pheucticus chrysogaster
Lesson, 1832

The Golden-bellied Grosbeak (Pheucticus chrysogaster) or Southern Yellow-bellied Grosbeak, is a species of cardinal (bird) in the Cardinalidae family. It is very similar to, and has sometimes been considered conspecific with the Yellow Grosbeak. The Golden-bellied Grosbeak is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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