Species profile
Band-tailed Sierra Finch
Porphyrospiza alaudina
Quick answer
Band-tailed Sierra Finch is a species in the Thraupidae family, order Passeriformes. Record a sighting in Feather Journal and it joins your life list with the date, place and photos attached.
- Scientific name
- Porphyrospiza alaudina
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Porphyrospiza
Recording Band-tailed Sierra Finch in your journal
When you see this bird, log the sighting with the date, the place and any photos. If it's your first, Feather Journal marks it as a lifer and adds it to your life list automatically — no spreadsheet, no re-typing.
Related species in Thraupidae
- Ash-breasted Sierra-finch (Geospizopsis plebejus)
- Azure-rumped Tanager (Poecilostreptus cabanisi)
- Azure-shouldered Tanager (Thraupis cyanoptera)
- Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
- Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis)
- Barbados Bullfinch (Loxigilla barbadensis)
- Bay-chested Warbling-finch (Castanozoster thoracicus)
- bay-headed tanager (Tangara gyrola)