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Male
Photo by Fritz73
Tilcara, Jujuy, Argentina in Prepuna

Lessonia oreas

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

Considered a subspecies of Austral Negrito by some authors^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Freshwater lakes and saline marshes.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds