Giant Conebill

The Giant Conebill is 15 cm in length and weighs 22.0 -27.0 g. It is found in the Andes from Colombia to Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia. It lives in Polylepis trees of the family Rosaceae.

The Giant Conebill is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.

The Giant Conebill Oreomanes fraseri is a small passerine bird, one of the tanager family. The only member of the genus Oreomanes it is closely related to the regular conebills Conirostrum though it differs in its larger size and nuthatch-like foraging habits. The Giant Conebill is 15 cm in length and weighs 22.0 -27.0 g. It is found in the Andes from Colombia to Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia. It lives in Polylepis trees of the family Rosaceae. More

Giant Conebill, Mountain Caracara: northern Chile home birding wildflowers wildlife & nature guide faq reservations Giant Conebill , Oreomanes fraseri in Reserva Las Vicuñas, in Chile Giant Conebill: Oreomanes fraseri in the Reserva Nacional Las Vicuñas, Chile The Polylepis-specialist Giant Conebill was first registered in Chile in the 1990s and recently has been discovered nesting in the More

Giant Conebill is 15 cm in length and weighs 22.0 -27.0 g. It is found in the Andes from Colombia to Ecuador, and Peru to Bolivia. It lives in `Polylepis` trees of the family R... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Coneb We are now searching for • words containing `Giant%Conebill`; • Alternative spelling; • Wider definitions. One moment please... More

Giant Conebill, Peru, Santa Eulalia Valley July 2003 © Simon Woolley A strict Polylepis specialist - resembling nothing so much as a huge nuthatch! See more Peru pix at http://www.jjcskw.demon.co.uk Send this as a postcard Giant Conebill - Giant Conebill, Ecuador, Papallacta Pass December 2005 © Steve Blain www.tropicalbirding. More

Giant Conebill, 3 flamingos, a slew of interesting brownish passerines - and everyone's favorite target bird, the Diademed Sandpiper-plover. Depending on the rainfall and the resultant vegetation, some of the birds migrate altitudinally following the watered valleys from Arica or Putre to the highlands and vice versa. More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Thraupidae
Genus : Oreomanes
Species : fraseri
Authority : Sclater, 1860