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Lesser Antillean bullfinch

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Passeriformes

Genus
  
Loxigilla

Higher classification
  
Loxigilla

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Thraupidae

Scientific name
  
Loxigilla noctis

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Loxigilla, Bird, Barbados bullfinch, Black‑faced grassquit, Puerto Rican bullfinch

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The Lesser Antillean bullfinch (Loxigilla noctis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Saint Barth, Saint Martin, 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.

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Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

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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.

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References

Lesser Antillean bullfinch Wikipedia