Grey-browed Brushfinch

Arremon assimilis

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreForestSmall · 39 g

What the Grey-browed Brushfinch sounds like

Sonogram of the Grey-browed Brushfinch: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by aves_SDA_Bogota · Song · Paradero de Buses Sotrandes y Cootrasuba (near Bogotá), Bogotá, Colombia · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Grey-browed Brushfinch: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Azuay: upper Yunguilla Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Grey-browed Brushfinch: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Azuay: upper Yunguilla Valley, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The grey-browed brushfinch is 19 to 20 cm (7.5 to 7.9 in) long. The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies A. a. assimilis have a black crown with a gray stripe in the middle and a gray supercilium that extends to the nape and wraps down around the back of the ear coverts to the sides of the breast. The rest of their face is black. Their upperparts, wings, and tail are olive-green. Their throat is white that continues through the breast and belly. The sides of their breast and flanks are gray and their vent grayish olive. Juveniles are generally olive with dusky cheeks. Voice: The grey-browed brushfinch's song is "a high, sibilant series of thin whistles with short spaces between separate phrases (often of three elements), e.g. weseer-twee twesee? Sewtsee? Weseer-twee tweswee? Sewtswee?...". Its calls include "a high ti and a tseer".

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When to see the Grey-browed Brushfinch

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

Where to see the Grey-browed Brushfinch

Regular range

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

About the Grey-browed Brushfinch

The grey-browed brushfinch is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

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Easily confused with

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