Brown-capped Rosy Finch
Leucosticte australisRidgway, R, 1874
English (US) Brown-capped Rosy Finch
The Brown-capped Rosy Finch (Leucosticte australis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Fringillidae (Finches, Euphonias, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: mountains of southeastern Wyoming, Colorado, and north-central New MexicoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Leucosticte australis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Brown-capped Rosy Finch
- Described by
- Ridgway, R, 1874
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Leucosticte tephrocotis, var. australis
- Described by
- Ridgway, R, 1874
- Type locality
- Mt. Lincoln, Colorado.
- Original description
- Bulletin of the Essex Institute 5 p.189,197
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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