Chestnut-breasted Mountain-finch (Poospizopsis caesar)

Other Names (World)
Chestnut-breasted Mountain-Finch, Chestnut-bellied Mountain-Finch, Cuzco Mountain-Finch, Chestnut Warbling-finch, Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
18.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Sclater & Salvin, 1869

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical high altitude shrubland. From 2,500 - 3,500 m, occasionally up to 3,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Peru.

Andes of Apur��mac and Cuzco, in south-eastern Peru.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch (Poospizopsis caesar) [XC20930]
by Richard Hoyer from below Abra M'alaga, Dpto. Cuzco, Peru (call)

Chestnut-breasted Mountain Finch (Poospizopsis caesar) [XC47464]
by Paul Donahue from Cusco: 5.5 km NNW Urubamba, Peru (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Formerly classified in its own genus, Poospizopsis. New molecular data indicate that present genus forms a clade with the tanager (Thraupidae) genera Hemispingus and Thlypopsis, and that Compsospiza, which often subsumed within this genus, is sister to that clade. A molecular-genetic study of various members of the genus suggests that present species is sister to Rufous-sided Warbling-Finch (Poospizopsis hypocondria).

References
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