Yellow-whiskered bush tanager

Yellow-whiskered bush tanager
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: see text
Genus: Chlorospingus
Species: C. parvirostris
Binomial name
Chlorospingus parvirostris
Chapman, 1901

The yellow-whiskered bush tanager or short-billed bush-tanager (Chlorospingus parvirostris) is a species of bird traditionally placed in the family Thraupidae, but perhaps closer to Arremonops in the Emberizidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

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