Sooty-faced Finch (Arremon crassirostris)
About the Sooty-faced Finch
The sooty-faced finch (Arremon crassirostris) is a species of bird in the family Emberizidae, the New World sparrows. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama. The sooty-faced finch has a complicated taxonomic history. It was formally described in 1865 with the binomial Buarremon crassirostris. In 1898 Robert Ridgway erected a new genus for it, Lysurus. He also assigned what is now the olive finch (then Buarremon castaneiceps, now Arremon castaneiceps) to the new genus. In 2008 taxonomists began merging Lysurus into Arremon. The sooty-faced and olive finches are now treated as sister species. The sooty-faced finch is monotypic.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 13 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-SA · 4 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Panama in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Black-capped SparrowArremon abeilleirecording
- Black-headed BrushfinchArremon atricapillusrecording
- Chestnut-capped BrushfinchArremon brunneinucharecording
- Grey-browed BrushfinchArremon assimilisrecording
- Orange-billed SparrowArremon aurantiirostrisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.