Black-eared Hemispingus (Sphenopsis melanotis)
About the Black-eared Hemispingus
The black-eared hemispingus (Sphenopsis melanotis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in humid highland forest in the Andes of western Venezuela, through to western Bolivia. It includes several distinctive subspecies, and two of these are sometimes considered as separate species: the western hemispingus (S. ochraceus) of the west Andean slope in southwestern Colombia and northwestern Ecuador, and the Piura hemispingus (S. piurae) of the west Andean slope in southwestern Ecuador and northwestern Peru.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 44 recordings for this species: 5 CC BY-NC-SA · 2 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 Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Piura HemispingusSphenopsis piuraerecording
- Western HemispingusSphenopsis ochracearecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.