Yellow-breasted brush finch
- For the bird alternatively named rufous-naped brush finch (Atlapetes rufinucha), see Bolivian brush finch.
| Yellow-breasted brush finch | |
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| A. l. yariguierum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Emberizidae |
| Genus: | Atlapetes |
| Species: | A. latinuchus |
| Binomial name | |
| Atlapetes latinuchus (Du Bus, 1855) | |
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The yellow-breasted brush finch (Atlapetes latinuchus), also known as the cloud-forest brush finch, is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Atlapetes rufinucha.
It is found in forest and woodland in the Andean highlands of northern Peru, through Ecuador and Colombia, to far western Venezuela. It is generally common, and therefore considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International. A new subspecies, A. l. yariguierum, was described in 2006 from Serranía de los Yariguíes in Colombia.
Subspecies A. l. comptus, illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Atlapetes latinuchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.