Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thraupidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Santa Eulalia, Lima
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Santa Eulalia, Lima
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Sangal, Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Santa Eulalia, Lima
Identification & Behavior: ~16 cm (6.2 in). The male Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch has gray upperparts and tail. The female has dusky streaks on the upperparts. In both sexes, the forehead and eyebrow are rufous. The underparts and undertail coverts are rufous. It forages in dry Andean scrub on the west slope of the central Andes. The Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch is unmistakable in its range, but see the Plain-tailed Warbling-Finch with whom it may overlap on the northern end of its range.
Status: Endemic. The Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch is rare in a restricted range on the west slope of the central Andes at elevations ranging between 2500-3800 m.
Name in Spanish: Monterita de Pecho Rufo.
Sub-species: Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch (Poospiza rubecula), Salvin, 1895.
Meaning of Name: Poospiza: Gr. poa, poas= grass, meadow, and spiza= finch. rubecula: L. ruber= red, ruddy. Rubecula= redbreast or robin.
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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.