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Female or immature
Photo © by NJLarsen
Location: Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador, 16 August 2015
Camarhynchus psittacula

Identification

Distribution

Galápagos islands, Ecuador.

Taxonomy

  • C. p. habeli
    • Pinta and Marchena
  • C. p. affinis
    • Isabela and Fernandina
  • C. p. psittacula
    • Seymour, Barrington, Santa Cruz, Floreana, Pinzón, Rábida, Santiago
Female or immature
Photo © by NJLarsen
Location: Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador, 16 August 2015

Habitat

Lowland deciduous and montane evergreen forest.

Behaviour

Diet

It feeds on the fruits of native plant species, and on insects for which it forages under leaves and excavates dead branches.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2019. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World: v2019. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Swash, A & R Still 2005. Birds, Mammals and Reptiles of the Galapagos Islands, 2nd ed. Christopher Helm and Wildguides Ldt. ISBN 978-0-7136-7551-1
  3. Jaramillo, A. and C.J. Sharpe (2020). Large Tree-Finch (Camarhynchus psittacula), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.latfin1.01

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