Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thraupidae > Phrygilus > Phrygilus plebejusPhrygilus plebejus (Ash-breasted Sierra Finch)Synonyms: Geospizopsis plebejus (homotypic); Geospizopsis plebejus ocularis; Geospizopsis plebejus plebejus; Phrygilus ocularis The ash-breasted sierra finch (Phrygilus plebejus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.84095 EDGE Score: 1.76489 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 15 grams | | Female Weight [3] | 13 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Granivore | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 50 % | | | Clutch Size [1] | 2 | | Migration [4] | Migratory |
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Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Climate |
Land
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Bolivian montane dry forests |
Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Bolivian Yungas |
Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Central Andean dry puna |
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Central Andean puna |
Argentina, Bolivia, Peru |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Central Andean wet puna |
Peru, Bolivia |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Cordillera Central páramo |
Ecuador, Peru |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Marañón dry forests |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Northern Andean páramo |
Ecuador, Colombia |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Northwestern Andean montane forests |
Colombia, Ecuador |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Peruvian Yungas |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sechura desert |
Peru |
Neotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Southern Andean steppe |
Argentina, Chile |
Neotropic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Tumbes-Piura dry forests |
Ecuador, Peru |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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