Chocó Brush-finch Atlapetes crassus Dusky Brush-finch Tricolored Brush Finch Atlapetes tricolor Gorrión-montés Tricolor

Chocó Brushfinch Atlapetes crassus
(aka Dusky Brush-finch, Tricolored Brush-finch Atlapetes tricolor crassus)

Colombian name: Gorrión-montés Tricolor

Cerro Montezuma, Tatamá, Risaralda, Colombia
April 2012

For some time there was no overall agreement between authorities about the taxonomy or naming of this species. Some regarded it as a subspecies crassus of Atlapetes tricolor; others gave Atlapetes crassus full species rank but differ between Chocé Brushfinch and Dusky Brushfinch for the English name. The HBW and Birdlife International checklist adopted the names Chocé Brush-finch Atlapetes crassus and this is the same treatment used by Clements and eBird.

As a separate species, Chocé Brushfinch is distributed in the western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador. See the distribution map at xeno-canto.

It is found in the lower forest borders on the west slope of the Andes at between 600 and 1,800 metres altitude.

The song is high pitched and begins with two downslurred notes "tsuwee tsuwee, tsee-tsee, tsi-tsi-tsi"

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