Yellow-bellied Seedeater

What the Yellow-bellied Seedeater sounds like

Recorded by JUAN ANTONIO ALONSO DE JUAN · Song · Vereda La Máquina, Pacho, Cundinamarca, Colombia · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: SE Zumba: turnoff to Chito on La Chonta - El Chorro road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Pichincha: La Buena Esperanza, Tumbaco, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Yellow-bellied 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 Yellow-bellied Seedeater

The map shades 16 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.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Curaçao.

About the Yellow-bellied Seedeater

The yellow-bellied seedeater is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, formerly placed with the New World sparrows in the Emberizidae.

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

Easily confused with

Morelet's SeedeaterSporophila morelletiMorelet's seedeater is a passerine bird in the typical seedeater genus Sporophila. Double-collared SeedeaterSporophila caerulescensIt is a dimorphic species, with the male having a gray head and back, a black-collared throat, paired with a black band just below, across the upper whitish breast. Variable SeedeaterSporophila corvinaThe variable seedeater is a small, robust bird with a black conical bill.