Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides) | Photos and ID

LCLeast ConcernSeeds

ShrublandCup nestTiny · 9 g

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Matheus Oliveira, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Joe crutwell, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 8 — Photo: (c) dhfischer, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Charlotte Kirchner, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Vincent A. Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

ID tip

The Lesson's seedeater is a small, sparrow-like bird around 10.5–11 cm (4.1–4.3 in). Males have a mostly black head with large white whisker mark; females have an olive-brown back and pale yellowish belly with a dull yellow bill.

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When to see the Lesson's Seedeater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Lesson's Seedeater

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 11 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.

Venezuela Colombia Peru Ecuador Brazil Bolivia Suriname Guyana Trinidad & Tobago French Guiana Curaçao

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada, Panama.

About the Lesson's Seedeater

Lesson's seedeater is a bird species in the family Thraupidae.

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Easily confused with

Dark-throated SeedeaterSporophila ruficollisThe dark-throated seedeater is a bird species in the family Thraupidae.

White-throated SeedeaterSporophila albogularisThe white-throated seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Buffy-fronted SeedeaterSporophila frontalisThe buffy-fronted seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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