Plumbeous Seedeater (Sporophila plumbea)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
10.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Wied, 1831)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland, subtropical and tropical seasonally wet / flooded grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,500 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (1)...)

Plumbeous Seedeater (Sporophila) [XC419106]
by id from \u00c1gua Clara, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (call)

Plumbeous Seedeater (Sporophila plumbea) [XC325733]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Tr\u00eas Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
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).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

colombiana (Sharpe, 1888) - Southern Choc�, lower Magdalena Valley and Santa Marta Mts, in northern Colombia.
whiteleyana (Sharpe, 1888) - North-western, northern and central Venezuela (Sierra de Perija; Carabobo and Aragua; Bol��var and western Amazonas), llanos of eastern Colombia, the Guianas, and northern Brazil (Roraima, and Amap� east to mouth of R Amazon).
plumbea (Wied, 1831) - Extreme south-eastern Peru (Pampas del Heath), northern Bolivia (Pando, Beni, Santa Cruz and La Paz), Brazil south of Amazon (Mato Grosso east to Piau�� and central Bahia, south to Paran� and northern Rio Grande do Sul), eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Plumbeous Seedeater (Sporophila plumbea) - 10 files

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