Order Passeriformes | Phylum Chordata Family Thraupidae Scientific name Loxigilla noctis Rank Species | |
Similar Loxigilla, Bird, Barbados bullfinch, Black‑faced grassquit, Puerto Rican bullfinch |
Lesser antillean bullfinch wmv
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.

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.

Lesser antillean bullfinch in st lucia


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