Black-faced Dacnis

Black-faced Dacnis
Black-faced Dacnis
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Dacnis
Species: D. lineata
Binomial name
Dacnis lineata
(Gmelin, 1789)

The Black-faced Dacnis (Dacnis lineata) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in humid forest in the Amazon and the Chocó-Magdalena. The latter population has a yellow (not white) belly and is sometimes considered a separate species, the Yellow-tufted Dacnis (D. egregia).

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