The name of the genus is from the Ancient Greek φευκτικός - pheuktikós "shy" or "inclined to avoid".[5]
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Genus Pheucticus – Reichenbach, 1850 – six species
| Common name |
Scientific name and subspecies |
Range |
Size and ecology |
IUCN status and estimated population |
| Yellow grosbeak
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Pheucticus chrysopeplus
(Vigors, 1832) |
Pacific slope of Mexico from central Sonora to northwestern Oaxaca, and in southern Chiapas and Guatemala
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LC
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| Black-thighed grosbeak
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Pheucticus tibialis
Lawrence, 1867 |
Costa Rica and western Panama.
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LC
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| Golden grosbeak
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Pheucticus chrysogaster
(Lesson, 1832) |
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
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LC
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| Black-backed grosbeak
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Pheucticus aureoventris
(d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)
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Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
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| Rose-breasted grosbeak
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Female
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Pheucticus ludovicianus
(Linnaeus, 1766) |
east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and Venezuela.
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| Black-headed grosbeak
Male
Female
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Pheucticus melanocephalus
(Swainson, 1827) |
US Great Plains and from southwestern Canada to the mountains of Mexico.
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