Yungas Sparrow

Rhynchospiza dabbenei

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernEndemicSeedsWoodland22 g

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The Yungas sparrow is larger than its former "parent" R. strigiceps. Its upper parts are brown with darker streaks and varying amounts of rust and gray. It is pale gray below blending to buff on the flanks and in the vent area. The head is gray with chestnut crown and postocular stripes, black lores, and a white moustachial stripe. Voice: The Yungas sparrow's song is a series of chirps that contrast with the complex trills of the Chaco sparrow.

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When to see the Yungas Sparrow

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 Yungas Sparrow

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Yungas Sparrow

The Yungas sparrow is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae endemic to the Southern Andean Yungas of southeastern Bolivia and northwestern Argentina. It was formerly considered a subspecies of what was then called the stripe-capped sparrow.

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