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White-winged Brushfinch
Atlapetes leucopterus (Jardine, 1856)
Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
White-winged Brushfinch, Atlapetes leucopterus, is a passerine of the New World sparrows found in South America from north-west Ecuador to north-west and north-central Peru. It was described by Jardine in 1856. This bird is part of the family Passerellidae and has a disjunct range across the Andes. In Ecuador it occurs in dry to arid woodland and shrubland, as well as plantations and gardens, while in north-western Peru it is mainly tied to dry forest. A separate form lives on the eastern Andean slope in humid montane forest edges.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Passerellidae — New World Sparrows
- Breeding range
- South America: nw Ecuador to nw, nc Peru
