Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry and moist shrubland, dry and moist forest, heavily degraded former forest, pastureland, arable land, urban areas. From sea-level - 1,500 m.
Brazil (B) (NB), Colombia (B) (NB), Ecuador (B) (NB), Peru (B) (NB).
South-eastern Colombia (in upper R Amazon region), eastern Ecuador and north-eastern Peru, also adjacent western Brazil; recently recorded north-eastern Bolivia (northern Beni).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Caqueta Seedeater (Sporophila) [XC435879]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (song)
Caqueta Seedeater (Sporophila) [XC592248]
by Herman van Oosten from Rio Javar\u00ed, AM. Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Sporophila americana (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Wing-barred Seedeater (Sporophila americana), Black Seedeater (Sporophila corvina) (2005) and Caqueta Seedeater (Sporophila murallae) (2007).
Molecular evidence suggests that genus is closely related to Oryzoborus, which should perhaps be subsumed within it. Further, that both genera should be placed in the tanager family (Thraupidae). Forms a superspecies with Black Seedeater (Sporophila corvina), Wing-barred Seedeater (Sporophila americana)and Grey Seedeater (Sporophila intermedia), and has been treated as conspecific with the first two. Grey Seedeater (Sporophila intermedia) was not thought to belong to this group until seen to hybridize with Black Seedeater (Sporophila corvina) in two different regions of Colombia. Within this group, present species thought to be sister to Wing-barred Seedeater (Sporophila americana).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet