Nicaraguan Seed-Finch (Sporophila nuttingi)

Other Names (World)
Nicaraguan Seed-Finch, Pink-billed Seed-finch, Nutting's Rice Grosbeak, Nicaraguan Seed Finch

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
15 cm

First Described (Guide)
Ridgway, 1884

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, seasonally wet / flooded grassland. Also, inland wetlands, subtropical and tropical heavily degraded former forest. From sea-level - 500 m.

Range (Guide)

Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama.

Caribbean lowlands of Nicaragua, northern and eastern Costa Rica (including Laguna de Arenal, near Finca La Selva) and western Panama (Almirante region of Bocas del Toro).

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).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (6)...)

Nicaraguan Seed Finch (Sporophila) [XC71666]
by Andrew Spencer from El Tigre fields, Limon, Costa Rica (song)

Nicaraguan Seed Finch (Sporophila) [XC518331]
by id from Los Chiles, Alajuela, Costa Rica (song)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Genus sometimes subsumed in Sporophila. Molecular evidence suggests that genus as currently constituted may not be monophyletic, and some of its members may have closest relatives in Sporophila. More data necessary in order to resolve a basal polytomy in the phylogeny. Formerly considered conspecific with Large-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila crassirostris), Great-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila maximiliani) and Black-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila atrirostris). Still included by some authors in Great-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila maximiliani), but by others considered closest to Large-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila crassirostris). The taxonomy of this group still in flux.

References
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