Lesser Antillean bullfinch
| Lesser Antillean bullfinch | |
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| Male and two females in Dominica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Loxigilla |
| Species: | L. noctis |
| Binomial name | |
| Loxigilla noctis (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
The Lesser Antillean bullfinch (Loxigilla noctis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Saint Barth, Saint Martin, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
In 2006 the Barbados bullfinch (Loxigilla barbadensis) was elevated to the species level; previously the species had been considered only a non-sexually dimorphic subspecies of the Lesser Antillean bullfinch.[2]
Gallery
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Male on St. John, USVI
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Male on St. John, USVI
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Female on St. John, USVI
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Loxigilla noctis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Birdlife International, What's new (2007)
External links
Media related to Loxigilla noctis at Wikimedia Commons- Saint Barth Fauna & Flora (French)