Yellow-bellied Siskin
Spinus xanthogastrus (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1855)
Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias
Yellow-bellied Siskin, Spinus xanthogastrus, is a finch of Middle and South America, breeding from Costa Rica to Bolivia. It lives in humid evergreen and semi-deciduous forest edges, openings with scattered trees, high pastures and coffee plantations in upper tropical and subtropical zones. The species is sexually dimorphic, and the nominate form has a glossy black male with bright yellow underparts, while the female is mainly olive-green with yellowish underparts. It is not migratory, though it moves about within its range. It feeds mainly on seeds and breeds in a cup nest placed in dense foliage.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae — Finches, Euphonias
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: Costa Rica to Bolivia
