Black-bellied Seedcracker © flickr.com

Vagrant to Gambia.

May form a superspecies with Lesser Seedcracker (Pyrenestes minor) and Crimson Seedcracker (Pyrenestes sanguineus), and all sometimes treated as conspecific.

Several subspecies have been proposed, on basis of differences mainly in general size and in bill size and shape, e.g. relatively small rothschildi (described from Niger Delta, in Nigeria), larger and larger-billed frommi (from Kitungulu, in south-western Tanzania), and still larger and huge-billed maximus (from Faradje, in north-eastern DRCongo). However, individuals of each type can be found together in some geographical areas, and they interbreed (pairing behaviour independent of bill-size morph). In addition, intermediates occur, and nestlings of pairs of each size morph are identical in mouth colour and pattern.


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