Yellow-breasted brushfinch

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Yellow-breasted brushfinch
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Atlapetes latinuchus - Rufous-naped Brush Finch
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Passerellidae
Genus: Atlapetes
Species:
A. latinuchus
Binomial name
Atlapetes latinuchus
(Du Bus, 1855)
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Synonyms
  • Atlapetes rufinucha latinuchus
  • Buarremon comptus

The yellow-breasted brushfinch (Atlapetes latinuchus), also known as the cloud-forest brushfinch, is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Atlapetes rufinucha .

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It is found in forest and woodland in the Andean highlands of northern Peru, through Ecuador and Colombia, to far western Venezuela. It is generally common, and therefore considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International. A new subspecies, A. l. yariguierum , was described in 2006 from Serranía de los Yariguíes in Colombia.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Atlapetes latinuchus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T103774301A95065039. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103774301A95065039.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.