Black-and-rufous warbling finch

Black-and-rufous warbling finch
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae
Genus:	Poospiza
Species:	P. nigrorufa
Binomial name
	Poospiza nigrorufa; (D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837)
	Non-Breeding Year-round

The black-and-rufous warbling finch (Poospiza nigrorufa) is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

This species was formerly considered conspecific with the black-and-chestnut warbling finch (Poospiza whitii). The taxa were split based on molecular genetic and phenotypic data.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ BirdLife International (2017). "Poospiza nigrorufa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22723252A119473196. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22723252A119473196.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
^ Shultz, Allison J.; Burns, Kevin J. (2013). "Plumage evolution in relation to light environment in a novel clade of Neotropical tanagers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66 (1): 112–125. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.011. PMID 23026808.
^ Jordan, E.A.; Areta, J.I.; Holzmann, I. (2017). "Mate recognition systems and species limits in a warbling-finch complex (Poospiza nigrorufa/whitii)". Emu. 117 (4): 344–358. doi:10.1080/01584197.2017.1360746. hdl:11336/49976. S2CID 90815844.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2020). "Tanagers and allies". IOC World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 27 October 2020.