Black-billed Seed Finch

Sporophila atrirostris

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsGrasslandSmall · 26 g

What the Black-billed Seed Finch sounds like

Sonogram of the Black-billed Seed Finch: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: Bellavista, Palanda-Zumba road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Black-billed Seed Finch: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pastaza: Canelos, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Black-billed Seed Finch: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Pastaza: Canelos, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Black-billed Seed Finch

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Black-billed Seed Finch

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

About the Black-billed Seed Finch

The black-billed seed finch is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in the western Amazon Basin.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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