Thick-billed euphonia

Thick-billed euphonia
Male in El Valle de Antón, Panama
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Fringillidae
Genus:	Euphonia
Species:	E. laniirostris
Binomial name
Euphonia laniirostris D'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837
Synonyms
Euphonia melanura

Female in Boquete, Panama

The thick-billed euphonia (Euphonia laniirostris) is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae, formerly placed in the Thraupidae.

This euphonia measures 10 cm (3.9 in). The male has entirely yellow underparts from throat to vent save for a small terminal patch of white on the undertail. Upperparts are a dark blue-black except for the yellow crown patch which extends from the bill over the head to just past the eye. The female, like many euphonias, is dull olive above and yellow below.^[2]

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Euphonia laniirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
2. Angehr, George R.; Dean, Robert (2010). The Birds of Panama. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-8014-7674-7.

External links

• Thick-billed euphonia Images at Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)
• "Thick-billed euphonia media". Internet Bird Collection.
• BirdLife species factsheet for Euphonia laniirostris
• Thick-billed euphonia photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
• Thick-billed euphonia species account at NeotropicalBirds (Cornell University)

• Interactive range map of Euphonia laniirostris at IUCN Red List maps
• Audio recordings of Thick-billed euphonia on Xeno-canto.