Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Bay-chested Warbling-finch (Poospiza thoracica) - HBW 16, p. 623
French: Chipiu à poitrine baie
German: Maronenbrust-Ammerfink
Spanish: Monterita Pectoral
Taxonomy: Fringilla thoracica Nordmann, 1835, Brazil.
New molecular data indicate that genus forms a clade with the tanager (Thraupidae) genera Hemispingus and Thlypopsis, and that Compsospiza, which often subsumed within present genus, is sister to that clade. Monotypic.
Distribution: Coastal mountains along Minas Gerais–Rio de Janeiro border, and highlands from E São Paulo and Paraná S to NE Rio Grande do Sul, in SE Brazil.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird moving fast in bushes and foraging Locality Pico da Caledonia, Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 July 2007 3 years ago 26 sec 4.1 -
A poor view of a bird eating a worm and flying away Locality Itatiaia National Park, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 July 2004 5 years ago 7 sec 1.7
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in a bush
Locality Macaé de Cima, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Juan Carlos Marín 14 September 2008 2 years ago 3.5
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