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Myioborus miniatus (Slate-throated Redstart / Abanico pechinegro)

The Slate-throated Redstart is found from northern Mexico south to northern Bolivia, always in temperate montane habitats. In the north it lives in Pine-Oak forests, farther south in cloud forests and moist montane slopes.

 

It is a species which shows a high degree of geographic variation. In fact this largely grayish-blue bird with a dark chestnut cap has a striking red belly in the north, and in South America it is yellow-bellied, with orange-bellied forms in-between.

 

La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes, 2300 meters above sea level.

 

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Uploaded on September 4, 2019
Taken on January 7, 2019