It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.
The Slaty Finch is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.
The Slaty Finch (Haplospiza rustica) is a bird species in the family Thraupidae (formerly in Emberizidae). It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. More
Slaty Finch - Finca Dracula in Guadalupe, Panama next (Slaty Finch) last first previous (Silver-throated Tanager) Slaty Finch Copyright and usage info: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. More
characterize the known habitats of slaty finches and what other species of plants and animals slaty finches are known to occur with. Species Analyst uses this combined information to draw a new map, one that predicts where slaty finches ought to be found. It shows, in other words, that birds don't cluster along roads. Biologists do. More
Slaty Finch, Panamá, Cerro Punta, Chiriqui 2009-11-02 © Bjorn Anderson and here is another slaty bamboo-specialist that can be tricky to find. Slaty Finch - Slaty Finch, Ecuador, Tapichalaca, Zamora-Chinchipe 22-aug-2007 © Roger Ahlman Most common bird when bamboo or this grass is seeding. More pics from Ecuador under World Rarities. More