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Photo by Fritz73
Tafi del Valle, Tucuman, Argentina, 2005

Aeronautes andecolus

[edit] Identification

• Pale rump
• White collar
• White below
• Black belly and tail
• Long, thin wings with narrow white trailing edge to the secondaries
• Long, moderately forked tail

[edit] Distribution

Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile and western Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• A. a. parvulus:

• Andes of western Peru to extreme northern Chile

• A. a. peruvianus :

• Andes of south-eastern Peru

• A. a. andecolus:

• Andes of Bolivia to western Argentina (Río Negro)

[edit] Habitat

Arid or semi-arid montane scrub and oasis valleys.

[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. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds