Medium Ground-finch (Geospiza fortis)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
12.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1837

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry shrubland. Also, subtropical and tropical dry forest, pastureland, arable land. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Ecuador.

Gal�pagos Islands of Ecuador.

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 (6)...)

Medium Ground Finch (Geospiza fortis) [XC22427]
by Eric DeFonso from Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Floreana, Galapagos, Ecuador (song)

Medium Ground Finch (Geospiza fortis) [XC731387]
by Scott Olmstead from Ecuador: Gal\u00e1pagos: Sta Cruz: Las Grietas, Ecuador (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Recent molecular-genetic research suggests that the Galapagos group consisting of present genus and Certhidea, Platyspiza and Camarhynchus, known collectively as "Darwin's finches", is allied to the tanagers (Thraupidae), being closest to Coereba, Tiaris and several Caribbean genera. Present species hybridizes rarely with Small Ground-finch (Geospiza fuliginosa) and with Common Cactus-finch (Geospiza scandens); on Santa Cruz, large-scale hybridization with Large Ground-finch (Geospiza magnirostris) thought to have occurred.

References
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