- Rhopospina alaudinus
Porphyrospiza alaudina
Phrygilus alaudinus
Corydospiza alaudina
Identification
15cm.
Male: Blue-grey head, neck, upper chest and flanks. White under chest, abdomen and under-tail coverts. Back bluish grey with blackish lines. Black tail, central rectrices with wide white band. Yellow bill, legs orange.
Female: Head, back, upper tail coverts and upper wing coverts brownish gray with black lines, thinner on head. White throat, front neck, chest and flanks with cinnamon lines, white abdomen. Tail has a white band which is narrower than in the male. Bill horny. Legs orange.
Distribution
South America: found in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
Taxonomy
This species has in the past been placed in genus Phrygilus.
Subspecies
There are 6 subspecies[1]:
- R. a. bipartita:
- R. a. humboldti:
- R. a. bracki:
- Central Peru (arid inter-Andean of upper Río Huallaga)
- R.. a. excelsa:
- R. a. alaudina:
- Andes of Chile (Atacama to Valdivia)
- R. a. venturii:
- Andes of Argentina (Jujuy and Salta to Tucumán and w Córdoba)
Habitat
Dry and high-altitude shrubland.
Behaviour
A ground nester. Three or four eggs, which are light olive beige with little spots of violet and black, are laid in an open cup-type nest made of soft grass, lined with fine grass or horse hair.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Band-tailed Sierra Finch. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Band-tailed_Sierra_Finch
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
