Violaceous Euphonia
Euphonia violacea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias
Violaceous Euphonia, Euphonia violacea, is a passerine finch of northern and south-central South America. It breeds from Trinidad, Tobago and eastern Venezuela through the Guianas and north Brazil to Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina. In northern Brazil its range includes the lower Amazon basin, the Tocantins drainage and the eastern side of the Orinoco basin in central Venezuela. It lives in forest, regrowth and cocoa and citrus plantations. The species was described by Linnaeus in 1758.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias
- Breeding range
- South America: n, sc
