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Photo by Rodrigo Reyes
Cajón del Maipo, central Chile, August 2008

Diuca diuca

[edit] Identification

Length 17cm (6-3/4") A large bird of typical finch morph
Male

• Grey upperparts and head
• Small white crescents above and below eyes
• White throat
• Grey breast band and flanks

Female
Photo by Rodrigo Reyes
Cachagua, Chile, September, 2005

• White belly in inverted V shape
• Cinnamon crissum
• Large blue grey bill with curved culmen
  

Female - browner

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

Four subspecies are recognized:^[1]:

• D. d. crassirostris:

• Andes of northern Chile and northern Argentina

• D. d. diuca:

• Andes of central Chile and central Argentina

• D. d. chiloensis:

• Chiloé Island (off western Chile)

• D. d. minor:

• Argentina (Córdoba to Santa Cruz); winters to south-eastern Brazil

[edit] Habitat

Dry and high-altitude shrubland, farmland, forest edges and urban gardens.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

Nests in shrubs with dense leaf cover but no thorns.

[edit] Vocalisation

Song: long, loud song with single chirps similar to whit or chit.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
2. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

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