Buff-bridled Inca finch

Buff-bridled Inca finch
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: see text
Genus: Incaspiza
Species: I. laeta
Binomial name
Incaspiza laeta
(Salvin, 1895)

The buff-bridled Inca finch (Incaspiza laeta) is a species of bird traditionally placed in the Emberizidae family, but it may be more closely related to the Thraupidae. Its current family status is incertae sedis.

It is endemic to Peru where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.

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