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.
| Yellow-breasted brushfinch | |
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| Atlapetes latinuchus - Rufous-naped Brush Finch | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Passerellidae |
| Genus: | Atlapetes |
| Species: | A. latinuchus
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| Binomial name | |
| Atlapetes latinuchus (Du Bus, 1855)
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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.
Gallery edit
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Yanachocha Reserve - Ecuador -
Subspecies A. l. comptus, illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886
See also edit
- Bolivian brushfinch or rufous-naped brushfinch (Atlapetes rufinucha)
References edit
- ^ 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.