Order: Passeriformes | Family: Passerellidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southwest Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Piura, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Piura, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Piura, Peru
Status: The Tumbes Sparrow is uncommon and largely restricted to the lowlands and foothills of northwest Peru. It is known to range up to 1200 m along the foothill of the western Andes. It also occurs in Ec.
Name in Spanish: Gorrión de Tumbes.
Sub-species: Tumbes Sparrow (Rhynchospiza stolzmanni), (Taczanowski), 1877.
Meaning of Name: Rhynchospiza: Gr. rhunkhos= bill and spiza= finch. Also, spizo= to chirp.
stolzmanni: In honor of Jan Sztolcman (1854-1928) Polish zoologist, collector in tropical America 1875-1883.
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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.