| Black Siskin Carduelis
atrata Chilean name: Jilguero negro |
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Lauca National Park, Chile February 2007 The Black Siskin is distributed in the Andes from central Peru to northern Chile and north-western Argentina. It is found in dry, shrubby areas between 3,000 and 5,000 metres. |
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It is the blackest of all the siskins found in Chile
and has a yellow belly and undertail coverts while the tail has yellow
edging. The wings have a large yellow wing-patch. Immatures like the one
on the left of photo 3 have a pale bill and more obvious wing
bars. There is a recording and a distribution map on xeno-canto. |
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