Hooded Siskin

Spinus magellanicus (Vieillot, 1805)

Hooded Siskin, Spinus magellanicus, is a finch in South America, where it is widespread across the mainland. It was first described in 1805. The species is sexually dimorphic, and the nominate male has a black head, throat and upper breast set off by a yellow nape collar, with yellow on the rump and a patterned wing. Females lack the black hood and are duller olive above. Other subspecies vary in the extent of black, yellow and olive, and some are treated differently in taxonomic lists.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias

Breeding range

South America: widespread