GOLDEN GROSBEAK Female Pheucticus chrysogaster. A female Golden Grosbeak is eating red colored fleshy fruit of a short columnar cactus Opuntia cylindrica in the high tropical dry forest at the Bosque Protector Jerusalem a little to the north of Guayllabamba in northern Ecuador at 11:44 AM on January 29, 2020.
The Golden Grosbeak belongs to the family Cardinalidae (Cardinals and Allies) and lives in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Perú. Pheucticus chrysogaster was earlier known by the common names Golden-bellied Grosbeak and Southern Yellow Grosbeak. Some workers consider it to be conspecific with the Yellow Grosbeak P. chrysopeplus of Guatemala and Mexico.
Una hembra de Picogrueso Dorado Pheucticus chrysogaster está comiendo fruta roja de un cactus (Opuntia cylindrica) en el bosque seco tropical de altura del Bosque Protector Jerusalem un poco al norte de Guayllabamba en el norte de Ecuador a las 11 y 44 de la mañana el 29 de enero de 2020.
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