Red Pileated Finch

Coryphospingus cucullatus

IUCN: Least Concern

Taxonomy

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Thraupidae
Genus
Coryphospingus
eBird Code
recfin1

Vocalizations

Leandro Bareiro Guiñazú · CC_BY_4_0

Subspecies (3)

  • Coryphospingus cucullatus cucullatus

    the Guianas and northeastern Brazil (eastward to Pará)

  • Coryphospingus cucullatus fargoi

    base of the east slope of the Andes in southern Colombia (Putumayo) and eastern Ecuador southward to the Marañón Valley of far southeastern Ecuador (southern Zamora-Chinchipe) and northern Peru (Cajamarca and Amazonas); Urubamba Valley in south-central Peru (Cusco); and from northern Bolivia (La Paz) southward to western Paraguay and northern Argentina (southward to San Luis, La Pampa, and northern Buenos Aires)

  • Coryphospingus cucullatus rubescens

    eastern Paraguay to central and southern Brazil, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.