Green-striped Brushfinch - BirdForum Opus

Arremon virenticeps

Buarremon virenticeps

Identification

18–20·5 cm

• Blackish head
• White median stripe on forehead with whitish stripes on each side. The stripes transition to greenish from the end of the forehead back to the nape. (There may be a break in the stripes between the white and greenish)
• White throat
• Dull green (bright olive) back
• Grey underparts

Distribution

Endemic to Mexico; does not overlap in distribution with the similar Chestnut-capped Brush-Finch.

Taxonomy

Green-striped Brush Finch has in the past been placed in genus Atlapetes and is placed by some authors in Buarremon.

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized¹:

• A. v. verecundus:

• Mountains of western Mexico (southern Sinaloa, northern Nayarit and southern Durango)

• A. v. virenticeps:

• Mountains of western Mexico (Jalisco and Colima to Morelos and western Puebla)

Habitat

Humid montane evergreen forest.

Behaviour

Diet

They feed on or near the ground. Not much information available about their diet, but probably consists of insects and plant material.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved December 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Green-striped Brushfinch. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Green-striped_Brushfinch

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