Bronze-green Euphonia

Euphonia mesochrysa

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernFruitForestTiny · 13 g

What the Bronze-green Euphonia sounds like

Sonogram of the Bronze-green Euphonia: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Chinapinza at 1700 m, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Bronze-green Euphonia: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, calls · Morona-Santiago: w-slope Cord. de Cutucú, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Bronze-green Euphonia: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Morona-Santiago: e-slope Cord. de Cutucú: Uuntsuants, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The bronze-green euphonia is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 12 to 15 g (0.42 to 0.53 oz). It is a rather drab euphonia with a thick stubby bill. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a bright yellow forehead with a thin dark olive band below it. Their mid-crown is olive, their rear crown grayish, and their nape and the rest of their face olive. Their upperparts are olive with a strong gray-blue gloss. Their upperwing coverts are olive-green and their primary coverts blackish. Voice: One description of the bronze-green euphonia's song is "2 clear notes followed by a musical trill, tee-teeu-trrrrrt". Another is "usually a whistled note followed by one or more ringing rattles, for example peew brrrrrrr brr brr". Its call is "a distinctive, gravelly treeuh, treeuh".

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When to see the Bronze-green Euphonia

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bronze-green Euphonia

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Bronze-green Euphonia

The bronze-green euphonia is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae, the finches and euphonias. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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Easily confused with

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