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Photo by Robert Scanlon
Location: Southwest Colombia
Atlapetes tricolor

Includes: Choco Brush Finch

Identification

Distribution

Central Peru, Ecuador and western Colombia.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Two subspecies recognized[1]:

  • A. t. crassus in the Andes of western Colombia and Ecuador (Pichincha and El Oro)
  • A. t. tricolor in the Andes of central Peru (La Libertad and Junín)

crassus is sometimes recognized as full species Choco Brush Finch.

Habitat

Moist montanes.

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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External Links

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