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Photo by Stanley Jones
El Oro Province, Ecuador, November 2014
Photo by mmdnje
Bosque Cerro Blanco, Guayaquil, Ecuador, December 2005
Arremon abeillei

Identification

Distribution

South America: found in Ecuador and Peru.

Taxonomy

Subspecies[1]

There are 2 subspecies:

  • A. a. abeillei:
  • Arid scrub of south-western Ecuador (Manabí) to north-western Peru (Cajamarca)
  • A. a. nigriceps:
  • North-western Peru (upper Marañón Valley)

Habitat

Dry forests and moist lowland forests.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
  2. Avibase
  3. Wikipedia

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