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Parrot-billed Seedeater
Sporophila peruviana
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About the Parrot-billed Seedeater
The parrot-billed seedeater (Sporophila peruviana) is a small species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in various shrubby habitats in western Ecuador and western Peru. Outside the breeding season, it is quite social and frequently seen in flocks with other small seed-eating birds.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Sporophila peruviana
- Family
- Tanagers and Allies
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the tanagers and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Black-faced Grassquit Melanospiza bicolor
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
- Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa baritula
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
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