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Yellow-bellied Seedeater

Sporophila nigricollis

Classification

Class
Aves

The yellow-bellied seedeater (Sporophila nigricollis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, formerly placed with the New World sparrows in the Emberizidae. Taxonomy and systematics "Hooded seedeater" The "hooded seedeater" was a proposed bird species described by Austrian ornithologist August von Pelzeln as Spermophila melanops in 1870. The only known individual was heavily moulted and caught in October 1823 from a flock of other seedeater species at the edge of a lake 15 kilometres north of Registro do Araguaia, Brazil.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 18,891Peru · 2,722