Nombre en español: Gorrión-montés Ocraceo

Nombre en ingles: Ochre-breasted Brush-Finch

Nombre científico: Atlapetes semirufus

Familia: Emberizidae

Foto: Julian Zuleta

Canto: Oswaldo Cortes

El atlapetes semirrufo (Atlapetes semirufus), también denominado atlapetes ajicero o gorrión de monte ocráceo, es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Passerellidae propia del norte de Sudamérica.

Distribución

Se encuentra únicamente en las montañas del noreste de Colombia y norte de Venezuela. Su hábitat natural son los bosques húmedos tropicales de montaña.

Ochre-breasted brush finch

The ochre-breasted brush finch (Atlapetes semirufus) is a species of bird in the Passerellidae family.

It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

The Ochre-breasted Brush-Finch is restricted to the northern Andes, including the Eastern Andes of Colombia and the Andes of Venezuela. Although restricted in its range, it shows a great variety of geographic variation with variants on different slopes of the Andes, and different spots along the Andes, six subspecies are recognized. The Ochre-breasted Brush-Finch may have been better called the ochre-headed as the entire head is ochre and this coloration continues to the throat and breast. Otherwise it is greenish above and yellowish below with varying olive wash on the flanks. The various forms differ in how color saturated they are, some much darker than others and the palest showing nearly a white throat and pale yellowish breast. This brush-finch forms a superspecies with the Tepui Brush-Finch; the two are amongst the few brush-finches that lack blackish colors on the head.