Vilcabamba Brushfinch

The Vilcabamba brushfinch is 16.5 to 17 cm (6.5 to 6.7 in) long; one individual weighed 25.7 g (0.91 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a rufous forecrown, crown, and nape. The rest of their face is black. Their upperparts and tail are black with an olive green cast to the back. Their wings are black with an olive green cast on the outer webs of the secondaries. Their chin and throat are pale greenish yellow, and their breast green that smoothly transitions from the throat and to the yellow belly. Their flanks and undertail coverts are olive green. Voice: As of May 2026 neither xeno-canto nor the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had any recordings of Vilcabamba brushfinch vocalizations, and they have not been described.