Mountain Firetail
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Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae

[Photo] Charmosyna atrata (upper) and Oreostruthus fuliginosus (Mountain Firetail, below). Source: The hand-colored lithograph by John Gerrard Keulemans in Richard Bowdler Sharpe and William Ogilvie-Grant's "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum", London, 1881-1898. URL: www.classicnatureprints.com/pr.Parrots/parrots.index1.html

The Mountain Firetail Oreostruthus fuliginosus is a common species of estrildid finch found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 20,000-50,000 km².

It is commonly found in subtropical/ tropical dry forest. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

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