Family: Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Authority: (Salvin, 1895)

Red List Category

Criteria: C2a(i)

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Justification of Red List category
This species is suspected of having a small population. Habitat for this Polylepis specialist is becoming increasingly fragmented and degraded due to burning and overgrazing, which is certainly causing ongoing declines in the population size as well as increasing isolation between the small subpopulations. Consequently, the species is assessed as Near Threatened.

Population size: 2500-9999 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 35,000 km²

Country endemic: yes

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Realm - Neotropical
IUCN System - Terrestrial