Tawny-bellied seedeater

Tawny-bellied seedeater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Sporophila
Species: S. hypoxantha
Binomial name
Sporophila hypoxantha
Cabanis, 1851

The tawny-bellied seedeater (Sporophila hypoxantha) is a bird species in the family Thraupidae (formerly in Emberizidae). It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

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