Apurimac Brushfinch (Atlapetes forbesi) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernEndemicOmnivore

ForestSmall · 32 g

Apurimac Brushfinch (Atlapetes forbesi), photo 1 — Photo: (c) David F. Belmonte, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by David F. Belmonte · cc-by

Apurimac Brushfinch (Atlapetes forbesi), photo 7 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Apurimac Brushfinch (Atlapetes forbesi), photo 8 — Photo: (c) capacoscar, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Apurimac Brushfinch (Atlapetes forbesi), photo 9 — Photo: (c) David F. Belmonte, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Apurimac Brushfinch (Atlapetes forbesi), photo 10 — Photo: (c) David F. Belmonte, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

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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When to see the Apurimac Brushfinch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Apurimac Brushfinch

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru

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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Easily confused with

Tepui BrushfinchAtlapetes personatusThe tepui brushfinch is 17 to 18 cm (6.7 to 7.1 in) long and weighs 29 to 37 g (1.0 to 1.3 oz).

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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