Habitat
Dense scrub in semi-humid to semi-arid, steep-sided ravines, gullies and stream shores with mesophytic shrubs. Also, in adjacent grassy and rocky habitats. From 2,500 - 3,300 m.
Extreme southern Bolivia (southern Tarija) and Andes of north-western Argentina from Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán and Cajamarca south to north-eastern and western La Rioja.
 
Population
Estimated population is 2,500 - 9,999 (2011) and decreasing.
Tucuman Mountain Finch (Poospiza baeri) [XC212738]
by id from Salta: Finca El Candado, Argentina (song)
Tucuman Mountain Finch (Poospiza baeri) [XC273272]
by Peter Boesman from El Infiernillo pass north of Tafi del Valle, Tucuman, Argentina (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Genus often subsumed in Poospiza, but recent molecular data indicate that it is sister to a clade formed by latter genus and the tanager (Thraupidae) genera Hemispingus and Thlypopsis. May form a superspecies with Cochabamba Mountain-finch (Poospiza garleppi), and the two have been considered conspecific.