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The peg-billed finch is a long-tailed species, 13.5 cm long and weighing 16 g. It has a distinctive long upturned bill with a black upper mandible and yellow lower mandible. The adult male is slate grey, becoming paler on the belly. The female is olive-brown above, becoming paler below and with a grey tinge to the head and upper back. She has bright cinnamon wing bars and buff supercilia. Young birds are similar to the female, but have paler plumage and weaker wing bars. It has a dry pzeek call, and the male's song consists of high whistled notes ending with a buzz, chee shee shee shee paah.
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When to see the Peg-billed Finch
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Peg-billed Finch
The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Peg-billed Finch
The peg-billed finch is a passerine bird endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama. Despite its name, it is not a true finch, but now recognized as a member of the tanager family (Thraupidae), after being long placed in the Emberizidae. It is the only member of the genus Acanthidops. The scientific name commemorates the American ornithologist Spencer Fullerton Baird.
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Easily confused with
Cinereous FinchPiezorina cinereaThe cinereous finch is a species of South American bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Lesser Antillean TanagerStilpnia cucullataLesser Antillean tanagers grow to a length of 14–15 cm (5.5–5.9 in).
Golden-collared TanagerIridosornis jelskiiThe golden-collared tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
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