Species profile
Blue Finch
Porphyrospiza caerulescens
Quick answer
Cerrado of interior of ne and c Brazil; adjacent Paraguay (?)
- Scientific name
- Porphyrospiza caerulescens
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Porphyrospiza
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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- Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis)
- Band-tailed Sierra Finch (Porphyrospiza alaudina)
- Barbados Bullfinch (Loxigilla barbadensis)
- Bay-chested Warbling-finch (Castanozoster thoracicus)