Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea) | Photos, Calls and ID

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Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 3 — Photo: (c) Ricard Busquets Reverte, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 4 — Photo: (c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 5 — Photo: (c) Esteban Villa Restrepo, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 6 — Photo: (c) Anthony Batista, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 7 — Photo: (c) Maria Janeiro, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 8 — Photo: no rights reserved · CC0

Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 9 — Photo: (c) Roland Godon, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

Thick-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila funerea), photo 10 — Photo: (c) Alessandro Franchini, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Thick-billed Seed Finch sounds like

Sonogram of the Thick-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 · Esmeraldas: Canandé, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Esmeraldas: ca.1.5 km N Sapayo, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Oliver Komar · Song · Sector Lago de Yojoa, Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Departamento de Cortés, Honduras · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Thick-billed Seed Finch

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

Where to see the Thick-billed Seed Finch

Regular range

The map shades 9 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Costa Rica Colombia Panama Belize Ecuador Honduras Guatemala Nicaragua Mexico

About the Thick-billed Seed Finch

The thick-billed seed finch is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, but was until recently placed in Emberizidae. It is found widely in shrubby and grassy areas from southern Mexico, through Central America, to the Chocó in Colombia and Ecuador. It is replaced by the closely related chestnut-bellied seed finch in South America east of the Andes, as well as the valleys of Cauca and Magdalena in Colombia. The two have often been considered conspecific as the lesser seed-finch.

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

Easily confused with

Ruddy-breasted SeedeaterSporophila minutaThe ruddy-breasted seedeater is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.

Cinnamon-rumped SeedeaterSporophila torqueolaThe cinnamon-rumped seedeater is a passerine bird in the typical seedeater genus Sporophila.

Grey SeedeaterSporophila intermediaThe grey seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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