Slate-coloured seedeater

Slate-coloured seedeater
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Sporophila
Species: S. schistacea
Binomial name
Sporophila schistacea
Lawrence, 1862

The slate-coloured seedeater (Sporophila schistacea) is a bird species in the family Thraupidae, native to Central America and South America.

Distribution

The bird's natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and heavily degraded former forests.

It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.


References

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