Oleaginous hemispingus

Oleaginous hemispingus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Hemispingus
Species: H. frontalis
Binomial name
Hemispingus frontalis
(Tschudi, 1844)

The oleaginous hemispingus (Hemispingus frontalis) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

Description

The species' underparts are dull-yellow in colour while it upperpart is olive-green.[2]

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