Idiopsar erythronotus
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The white-throated sierra finch (Idiopsar erythronotus) is a species of tanager found in high-elevation Puna grassland habitat across the Altiplano of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The white-throated sierra finch was described as Chlorospiza erythronota by Rodolfo Amando Philippi and Christian Ludwig Landbeck in 1861. The type specimen, an immature (initially identified as an adult), was collected near Putre in modern Parinacota Province, Chile (then Peru). The species was redescribed by Anton Reichenow in 1907, on the basis of an adult male specimen in the Berlin Museum of Natural History, as Diuca behni, after the zoologist Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn. Carl Eduard Hellmayr recognized D. behni as a junior synonym of C. erythronota in 1932, transferring the species (which he named "Behn's finch" to the genus Phrygilus, where it remained for many decades.
As with many neotropical "finches," the white-throated sierra finch is not a true finch, but instead belongs to the tanager family (Thraupidae). In 2014, a large molecular phylogenetic study of the tanagers found Phrygilus to be polyphyletic, with the two "gray-and-white" sierra finches (white-throated... Wikipedia →
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-throated Sierra-Finch sighting in Lauca National Park on a given day, based on 154 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 62nd most-seen of the 112 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, July and December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a White-throated Sierra-Finch in Lauca National Park on a given day, against about 10% in June, September and November, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-throated Sierra-Finch sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Lauca National Park, in our data
Lauca National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-throated Sierra-Finch sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-throated Sierra-Finch is recorded against all the birds logged in Lauca National Park (154 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
