Chestnut-capped Brushfinch - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Cedric+K by Cedric K
Chiriqui, Panama, March 2005

Includes Plain-breasted Brush-Finch

Buarremon brunneinucha

Arremon brunneinucha

Identification

Subspecies differ mainly in the extent of grey on underparts of the body (less in South America²). The black band below the white throat is absent or at least reduced in some South American subspecies², and in apertus ("Plain-breasted Brush-Finch") from Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Mexico³.

Distribution

From Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru in South America.

Photo by NJLarsen
Cerro Punta, Chiriqui, Panama, January 2008
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Taxonomy

Chestnut-capped Brush Finch has in the past been placed in genus Atlapetes and is now sometimes placed in Arremon.

Subspecies

Ten subspecies are recognized¹:

• B. b. apertus (Plain-breasted): Southern Mexico (Sierra de Tuxtla of southern Veracruz)
• B. b. suttoni: Mountains of south-western Mexico (Guerrero to central Oaxaca)
• B. b. nigrilatera: Mountains of southern Mexico (Oaxaca)
• B. b. brunneinucha: Subtropical eastern Mexico (San Luis Potosí and Veracruz to north-eastern Oaxaca)
• B. b. macrourus: Mountains of southern Mexico (Chiapas) and south-western Guatemala
• B. b. alleni: Mountains of northern El Salvador, Honduras and western Nicaragua
• B. b. elsae: Mountains of Costa Rica to western and central Panama
• B. b. frontalis: Mountains of extreme eastern Panama to Colombia, western Venezuela and southern Peru
• B. b. allinornatus: Mountains of north-western Venezuela (Falcón and Yaracuy)
• B. b. inornatus: Mountains of west-central Ecuador (Río Chimbo and Río Chanchan area)

Habitat

Forest and edge in highlands and foothills.

Behaviour

Almost exclusively found on the ground.

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. Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
3. Howell & Webb, 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198540124

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chestnut-capped Brushfinch. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chestnut-capped_Brushfinch

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