Santa Marta Brushfinch (Atlapetes melanocephalus)
About the Santa Marta Brushfinch
The Santa Marta brushfinch (Atlapetes melanocephalus) is a species of bird in the family Passerellidae, the New World sparrows. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. The Santa Marta brushfinch was formally described in 1880 with the binomial Buarremon melanocephalus. It is monotypic.
No audio on this page yet
We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 41 recordings for this species: 35 CC BY-NC-SA · 6 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Bay-crowned BrushfinchAtlapetes seebohmirecording
- Choco BrushfinchAtlapetes crassusrecording
- Dusky-headed BrushfinchAtlapetes fuscoolivaceusrecording
- Pale-headed BrushfinchAtlapetes pallidicepsrecording
- Pale-naped BrushfinchAtlapetes pallidinucharecording
- Slaty BrushfinchAtlapetes schistaceusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.