Tumbes Sparrow (Rhynchospiza stolzmanni) | Photos, Calls and ID

LCLeast ConcernInvertebrates

ShrublandCup nestSmall · 26 g

Tumbes Sparrow (Rhynchospiza stolzmanni), photo 1 — Photo: Manuel Roncal · CC0

Tumbes Sparrow (Rhynchospiza stolzmanni), photo 2 — Photo: Manuel Roncal · CC0

Tumbes Sparrow (Rhynchospiza stolzmanni), photo 3 — Photo: Tristan Jobin · CC BY 4.0

What the Tumbes Sparrow sounds like

Sonogram of the Tumbes Sparrow: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Loja: 2 km SW Catamayo (La Toma), Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Loja: 2 km SW Catamayo (La Toma), Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The Tumbes sparrow is a medium-sized sparrow some 14.5 cm (5.7 in) long. The beak is broad and conical, with the upper mandible blackish and the lower mandible horn-coloured. The head has a grey crown with a lateral chestnut stripe that continues as far as the nape, a white superciliary stripe and a brown eyestripe. The upper parts are greyish-brown, shaded with buff, and boldly streaked with black. The wings are blackish-brown with pale edges to the feathers.

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When to see the Tumbes Sparrow

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 Tumbes Sparrow

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Peru Ecuador

About the Tumbes Sparrow

The Tumbes sparrow is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae found in Ecuador and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Yungas SparrowRhynchospiza dabbeneiThe Yungas sparrow is larger than its former "parent" R. strigiceps.

Chaco SparrowRhynchospiza strigicepsThe Chaco sparrow is the smaller of the two former subspecies that were split.

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