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Tropeiro Seedeater

Sporophila beltoni

Vulnerable · IUCN Red List

VUVulnerableEndemicSeedsGrasslandCup nestTiny · 12 g
Tropeiro Seedeater (Sporophila beltoni), photo 1
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Tropeiro Seedeater (Sporophila beltoni), photo 2
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Tropeiro Seedeater (Sporophila beltoni), photo 3
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Tropeiro Seedeater (Sporophila beltoni), photo 4
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Tropeiro Seedeater (Sporophila beltoni), photo 5
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Tropeiro Seedeater (Sporophila beltoni), photo 6
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ID tip

The adult male is distinguished from the plumbeous seedeater by its larger size and bluish (rather than plumbeous) grey plumage, and from that and other Sporophila seedeaters, by having a robust, bright yellow beak with an arched culmen, and by vocalisations that include unique call notes.

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When to see the Tropeiro Seedeater

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Tropeiro Seedeater

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Brazil

About the Tropeiro Seedeater

The Tropeiro seedeater is a species of birds in the tanager family. It is endemic to Brazil. Formerly lumped with the plumbeous seedeater, it was described as a new species in 2013.

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Easily confused with

Black-and-tawny SeedeaterSporophila nigrorufaThe black-and-tawny seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. Great-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila maximiliani) Great-billed Seed FinchSporophila maximilianiThe great-billed seed finch is sexually dimorphic. Large-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila crassirostris) Large-billed Seed FinchSporophila crassirostrisThe large-billed seed finch is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.

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