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What the Blue Seedeater sounds like
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The blue seedeater is 11.5 to 14 cm (4.5 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 12 to 15 g (0.42 to 0.53 oz). The nominate male is entirely slate blue. The female's upperparts are cinnamon and the underparts tawny. The male A. c. relicta is more slaty (less blue) than the nominate and has black lores; the female is a paler cinnamon. The songs and calls have been transcribed in several ways. A song from Chiapas, Mexico, is . One from Panama is . A call from Puebla, Mexico, is and one from Panama is .
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When to see the Blue Seedeater
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Blue Seedeater
The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 2 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.
About the Blue Seedeater
The blue seedeater or Cabanis's seedeater is a species of bird in the cardinal family that is found in southern Mexico and Central America. The Ecuadorian seedeater was formerly considered a subspecies of the blue seedeater.
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Easily confused with
Ecuadorian SeedeaterAmaurospiza aequatorialisThe male Ecuadorian seedeater is mostly a pale slate blue; its crown is a lighter indigo.
Blackish-blue SeedeaterAmaurospiza moestaThe blackish-blue seedeater is 12 to 12.5 cm (4.7 to 4.9 in) long and weighs 12.5 to 14 g (0.44 to 0.49 oz).
Carrizal SeedeaterAmaurospiza carrizalensisThe Carrizal seedeater is 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 12 to 14 g (0.42 to 0.49 oz).
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