Patagonian sierra finch | |
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In Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Phrygilus |
Species: | P. patagonicus |
Binomial name | |
Phrygilus patagonicus Lowe, 1923 | |
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Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and temperate grassland.
Its diet consists mainly of seeds, flower parts, nectar, fruit, and insects, [2] but it has also been seen to forage on human refuse. [3]
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