Species profile
Mourning Sierra-finch
Rhopospina fruticeti
Quick answer
occurs in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina (Jaramillo, 2011 e). In Brazil, it is considered vagrant and there are only two records of this species, both for RS: one female found dead in the Highway BR 471 in Banhado do Taim in 1971 (Grantsau, 2002), and one individual seen in Vila Operária de Candiota in August 1997 (Bencke, 2001). Photographic records for the north coast of RS (WikiAves, 2016) are also of individuals brought to Brazil by ships (i. e., " ship-assisted ̎).
- Scientific name
- Rhopospina fruticeti
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Rhopospina
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
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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)
- Band-tailed Sierra Finch (Porphyrospiza alaudina)
- Barbados Bullfinch (Loxigilla barbadensis)
- Bay-chested Warbling-finch (Castanozoster thoracicus)