Order: Passeriformes | Family: Passerellidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. E Slope, Colombian Andes
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. E Slope, Colombian Andes
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Chinguela, Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Chinguela, Cajamarca
Status: The Pale-naped Brush-Finch is fairly common in montane forests of the east slope of the Andes only on the north and west side of the Marañon River. It generally ranges at elevations between 2500-3200 m. The Pale-naped Brush-Finch also occurs in Co and Ec.
Name in Spanish: Matorralero de Nuca Pálida.
Sub-species: Pale-naped Brush-Finch (Atlapetes pallidinucha papallactae), Hellmayr, 1913.
Meaning of Name: Atlapetes: Gr. myth. Atlas, a Titan king who was changed into a mountain and petes= flier, to fly. pallidinucha: L. pallids= pale, pallere= to be pale and nuchus= nape.

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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 03/01/2016.