Lesser Antillean Bullfinch

Lesser Antillean Bullfinch

Taxobox
name = Lesser Antillean Bullfinch


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Emberizidae
genus = "Loxigilla"
species = "L. noctis"
binomial = "Loxigilla noctis"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1766)
synonyms =

The Lesser Antillean Bullfinch ("Loxigilla noctis") is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family.It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.In 2006 the Barbados Bullfinch ("Loxigilla barbadensis") was elevated to the species level; previously the species had been considered only a non-sexually dimorphic subspecies of the Lesser Antillean Bullfinch. [Citation | last= Birdlife International | title = What's new (2007)

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* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/54031/all Loxigilla noctis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 26 July 2007.


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