About the Apurimac Brushfinch
The Apurimac brushfinch is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is endemic to Peru.
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The Apurimac brushfinch is 18 to 19 cm (7.1 to 7.5 in) long and weighs about 40 to 43 g (1.4 to 1.5 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly rufous head and nape with a black forehead, lores, and area around the eye. They have a white patch above the lores and a white lower cheek with a thin black line below it. Their upperparts are gray; their wings and tail are slightly more blackish with white showing on the bend of the folded wing. Their throat is white and their underparts mostly gray with a whitish center to the belly. Voice: The Apurimac brushfinch's song is "a hesitant series of thin whistles and slow trills, for example: tchip TSEEW! tchi pi-pi". Excited pairs duet with "high musical chatters ending with ti'ti'ti'ti tooee tooee tooee tooee". The species' call is "high pi notes".
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
White-rimmed BrushfinchAtlapetes leucopisThe white-rimmed brushfinch is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long.
Antioquia BrushfinchAtlapetes blancaeA. blancae is as a large finch with grey plumage; dark grey feathers on its back and tail, with whitish grey on its breast, stomach and throat.
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