Order: Passeriformes | Family: Furnariidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Puerto Viejo, Lima
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Lomas de Lachay, Lima
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Lima | Ica
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Lomas de Lachay, Lima
Status: Endemic. The Coastal Miner is common on the coastal plain ranging up to 700 m along the foothill of the Andes. It ranges below the range of the similar Grayish Miner.
Name in Spanish: Minero Peruano.
Sub-species: Coastal Miner (Geositta peruviana paytae), Ménégaux and Hellmayr, 1906. NW Peru (Piura, Lambayeque, La Libertad, Ancash).
(Geositta peruviana peruviana), Lafresnaye, 1847. W Peru (Lima).
(Geositta peruviana rostrata), Sztolcman, 1926. SW Peru (Ica).
Meaning of Name: Geositta: Gr. geo= ground and genus Sitta, Linnaeus, 1758, nuthatch. One that looks like a (ground) nuthatch. peruviana: Peru. Originating or associated with the country of Peru.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2017.