Large-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila crassirostris)

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
14.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Freshwater marshes, riparian thickets and second-growth scrub. From sea-level - 500 m, occasionally up to 700 m.

Range (Guide)

Brazil (B), Colombia (B), Ecuador (B) (NB), French Guiana (B), Guyana (B), Peru (B), Suriname (B), Trinidad and Tobago (B), Venezuela (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
Trapping is the main threat.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (16)...)

Large-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila) [XC59666]
by Niels Krabbe from El Real, Darien Province, Panama (song)

Large-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila crassirostris) [XC483615]
by Jacob Wijpkema from Bioparque Mariposario Bonita Farm, Dosquebradas, Risaralda, Colombia (call)

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 Nicaraguan Seed-Finch (Sporophila nuttingi), Great-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila maximiliani) and Black-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila atrirostris). Subspecies occidentalis often placed in Great-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila maximiliani). The taxonomy of this group still in flux.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

occidentalis Sclater, PL, 1860 - Pacific slope of Colombia south to south-western Ecuador.
crassirostris (Gmelin, 1789) - Venezuela, the Guianas, eastern Colombia south to north-eastern Peru, and northern and western Brazil (north-western Amazonas, north-eastern Roraima, Amap� and northern Par�). Also Trinidad (at least formerly).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Large-billed Seed-Finch (Sporophila crassirostris) - 10 files

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