Yellow-breasted brushfinch

The yellow-breasted brushfinch (Atlapetes latinuchus), also known as the cloud-forest brushfinch, is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of Atlapetes rufinucha.

Yellow-breasted brushfinch
Atlapetes latinuchus - Rufous-naped Brush Finch
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passerellidae
Genus:	Atlapetes
Species:	A. latinuchus
Binomial name
Atlapetes latinuchus (Du Bus, 1855)
Synonyms
Atlapetes rufinucha latinuchus Buarremon comptus

It is found in forest and woodland in the Andean highlands of northern Peru, through Ecuador and Colombia, to far western Venezuela. It is generally common, and therefore considered to be of least concern by BirdLife International. A new subspecies, A. l. yariguierum, was described in 2006 from Serranía de los Yariguíes in Colombia.

Gallery

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  Yanachocha Reserve - Ecuador
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  Subspecies A. l. comptus, illustration by Joseph Smit, 1886

See also

• Bolivian brushfinch or rufous-naped brushfinch (Atlapetes rufinucha)