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Mountain Firetail (Oreostruthus fuliginosus) - Wiki
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Mountain Firetail
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Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
[Photo] Charmosyna atrata (upper) and Oreostruthus fuliginosus (Mountain Firetail, below). Source: The hand-colored lithograph by John Gerrard Keulemans in Richard Bowdler Sharpe and William Ogilvie-Grant's "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum", London, 1881-1898. URL: www.classicnatureprints.com/pr.Parrots/parrots.index1.html
The Mountain Firetail Oreostruthus fuliginosus is a common species of estrildid finch found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 20,000-50,000 km².
It is commonly found in subtropical/ tropical dry forest. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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Scientific Name: Oreostruthus fuliginosus (De Vis, 1897)
Common Names: Mountain Firetail
French: Diamant des montagnes German: Bergamadine Spanish: Diamante Montano
Other common names: Crimson-sided Mountain Finch, Red-sided Mountain Finch, Crimson-sided Weaver Finch
Taxonomy: Oreospiza fuliginosa De Vis, 1897, Mount Scratchley, New Guinea. |
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