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ShrublandCup nestTiny · 12 g
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It has a total length of approximately 11 cm (4+1⁄4 in). Adult males have a relatively heavy black bill. The upperparts are black, except for a greyish rump (actually white finely streaked black, but only visible up-close) and two distinct white wing-bars (the lower often reduced). The underparts are white, except for a broad black pectoral collar (sometimes reduced and incomplete) and blackish mottling to the upper flanks. The far duller female has a brownish bill, dull buffy-olive upperparts and pale olive-ochre underparts. Juveniles resemble adult females.
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When to see the Wing-barred 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 Wing-barred Seedeater
The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 3 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 Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama.
About the Wing-barred Seedeater
The wing-barred seedeater is a passerine bird from coastal regions of north-eastern South America in north-eastern Venezuela, Tobago, the Guianas, Amapá and north-eastern Pará, Brazil, and along the Amazon River upstream to around Manaus. Formerly, it included the mainly Central American Sporophila corvina and the west Amazonian S. murallae as subspecies, in which case the combined species had the common name Variable Seedeater. Following the split, this common name is now restricted to S. corvina.
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Easily confused with
Slate-colored SeedeaterSporophila schistaceaThe slate-coloured seedeater is a bird species in the family Thraupidae.
Plumbeous SeedeaterSporophila plumbeaThe plumbeous seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae.
Tawny-bellied SeedeaterSporophila hypoxanthaThe tawny-bellied seedeater is a bird species in the family Thraupidae.
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