Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 1 — Photo: (c) Dan Riskin, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Dan Riskin · cc-by

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 2 — Photo: Isis I. Castro Alberto · CC BY 4.0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 3 — Photo: Isis I. Castro Alberto · CC BY 4.0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 4 — Photo: Guy Babineau · CC BY 4.0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 5 — Photo: Guy Babineau · CC BY 4.0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 6 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 7 — Photo: Anthony Batista · CC BY 4.0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 8 — Photo: danielmoreno · CC0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 9 — Photo: Roger A. Morales-Flores · CC BY 4.0

Slate-colored Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), photo 10 — Photo: Roger A. Morales-Flores · CC BY 4.0

What the Slate-colored Seedeater sounds like

Sonogram of the Slate-colored Seedeater: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Esmeraldas: Río Canandé/Río de Graci: Puerto Nuevo, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Slate-colored Seedeater

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

Where to see the Slate-colored Seedeater

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 13 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.

Colombia Costa Rica Panama Peru Honduras Brazil Ecuador Belize Bolivia Nicaragua Venezuela Guyana French Guiana

Recorded as a rare visitor in Mexico.

About the Slate-colored Seedeater

The slate-coloured seedeater is a bird species in the family Thraupidae.

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

Easily confused with

Plumbeous SeedeaterSporophila plumbeaThe plumbeous seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

Wing-barred SeedeaterSporophila americanaIt has a total length of approximately 11 cm (4+1⁄4 in).

Tawny-bellied SeedeaterSporophila hypoxanthaThe tawny-bellied seedeater is a bird species in the family Thraupidae.

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