Sooty grassquit

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Sooty grassquit
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In Piraju, São Paulo, Brazil
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Asemospiza
Species:
A. fuliginosa
Binomial name
Asemospiza fuliginosa
(Wied, 1830)
Synonyms
  • Fringilla fuliginosa
  • Tiaris fuliginosus

The sooty grassquit (Asemospiza fuliginosa) is a small bird. It is recognized as a tanager closely related to Darwins finches.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2018). "Asemospiza fuliginosa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T22723614A132022759. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22723614A132022759.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.