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The green-chinned euphonia is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long and weighs 18 to 20 g (0.63 to 0.71 oz). It is a large euphonia with a short thick bill. The species is sexually dimorphic. Adult males have a small bright yellow forehead patch and blackish lores. The rest of their head, their neck, and their upperparts are glossy dark greenish blue. Their flight feathers are mostly dusky with dark greenish blue edges on the secondaries and tertials. Their tail's upper side is dark greenish blue and its underside is dark dusky gray. Voice: The green-chinned euphonia's song is a "short, simple warble with partly inhaled tif notes" and its call a "mid-high, dry, rapid ditditditdit".
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When to see the Green-chinned 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 Green-chinned Euphonia
The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Paraguay.
About the Green-chinned Euphonia
The green-chinned euphonia or green-throated euphonia is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae, the finches and euphonias. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
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Easily confused with
Golden-sided EuphoniaEuphonia cayennensisThe golden-sided euphonia is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs about 12 to 16 g (0.42 to 0.56 oz).
Plumbeous EuphoniaEuphonia plumbeaThe plumbeous euphonia is about 9 cm (3.5 in) long and weighs about 9 g (0.32 oz).
Finsch's EuphoniaEuphonia finschiFinsch's euphonia is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz).
Side by side: Green-chinned Euphonia vs Orange-crowned Euphonia
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