Chestnut-throated Seedeater

Sporophila telasco

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernSeedsShrublandCup nestTiny · 10 g

What the Chestnut-throated Seedeater sounds like

Sonogram of the Chestnut-throated Seedeater: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Esmeraldas: 11 km WSW Same, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Chestnut-throated Seedeater: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Guayas: 3 km E Pacoa Beach, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Chestnut-throated Seedeater: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Guayas: 3 km E Pacoa Beach, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Chestnut-throated Seedeater

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Chestnut-throated Seedeater

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 4 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 United States.

About the Chestnut-throated Seedeater

The chestnut-throated seedeater is a Neotropical songbird in the family Thraupidae.

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

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