Rose-bellied bunting

Rose-bellied bunting
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cardinalidae
Genus: Passerina
Species: P. rositae
Binomial name
Passerina rositae
(Lawrence, 1874)

The rose-bellied bunting (Passerina rositae) is a species of bird in the Cardinalidae family. It is also known as Rosita's bunting.

It is endemic to a tiny strip of hills along the Pacific slope of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, where it occurs in arid to semiarid thorn forest and gallery woodlands. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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