Seedeater
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Seedeaters
Male Variable Seedeater, Sporophila corvina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thraupidae (partim)
genera
Acanthidops Amaurospiza Catamenia Dolospingus Euneornis Haplospiza Loxigilla Loxipasser Melanospiza Melopyrrha Oryzoborus Sporophila Tiaris and see text

The seedeaters and their relatives are a group of passerine birds formerly placed in the bunting family Emberizidae. They are now known to be tanagers closely related to Darwins finches.^{citation needed} Indeed, some seedeaters are closer to these, while the more "true" seedeaters form a clade with certain tanagers. A few "atypical" seedeaters are closely related to a number of tanagers, many of which (such as the flowerpiercers) have peculiarly adapted bills.

They are seed-eating Central and South American birds with a distinctively conical bill.

Genera and species

True seedeaters

Genus Sporophila - typical seedeaters

• Buffy-fronted Seedeater, Sporophila frontalis
• Temminck's Seedeater, Sporophila falcirostris
• Slate-colored Seedeater, Sporophila schistacea
• Plumbeous Seedeater, Sporophila plumbea
• Caqueta Seedeater, Sporophila murallae
• Gray Seedeater, Sporophila intermedia
• Wing-barred Seedeater, Sporophila americana
• Variable Seedeater, Sporophila corvina
• White-collared Seedeater, Sporophila torqueola
• Rusty-collared Seedeater, Sporophila collaris
• Lesson's Seedeater, Sporophila bouvronides
• Lined Seedeater, Sporophila lineola
• Black-and-white Seedeater, Sporophila luctuosa
• Yellow-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila nigricollis
• Dubois' Seedeater, Sporophila ardesiaca - possibly a subspecies of S. nigricollis.
• Hooded Seedeater, Sporophila melanops - possibly extinct (20th century?)
• Double-collared Seedeater, Sporophila caerulescens
• White-throated Seedeater, Sporophila albogularis
• Drab Seedeater, Sporophila simplex
• White-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila leucoptera
• Parrot-billed Seedeater, Sporophila peruviana
• Black-and-tawny Seedeater, Sporophila nigrorufa
• Capped Seedeater, Sporophila bouvreuil
• Ruddy-breasted Seedeater, Sporophila minuta
• Tawny-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila hypoxantha
• Dark-throated Seedeater, Sporophila ruficollis
• Marsh Seedeater, Sporophila palustris
• Chestnut-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila castaneiventris
• Gray-and-chestnut Seedeater, Sporophila hypochroma
• Chestnut Seedeater, Sporophila cinnamomea
• Narosky's Seedeater, Sporophila zelichi
• Black-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila melanogaster
• Chestnut-throated Seedeater, Sporophila telasco - the "Tumaco Seedeater" is a stereotyped hybrid between this species and S. minuta

Genus Oryzoborus - sometimes included in Sporophila

• Nicaraguan Seed Finch, Oryzoborus nuttingi
• Large-billed Seed Finch, Oryzoborus crassirostris
• Black-billed Seed Finch, Oryzoborus atrirostris
• Great-billed Seed Finch, Oryzoborus maximiliani
• Lesser Seed Finch, Oryzoborus angolensis
  • Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch, Oryzoborus (angolensis) angolensis
  • Thick-billed Seed Finch, Oryzoborus (angolensis) funereus

Genus Dolospingus

• White-naped Seedeater, Dolospingus fringilloides

Genus Amaurospiza - tentatively placed here

• Blackish-blue Seedeater, Amaurospiza moesta
• Blue Seedeater, Amaurospiza concolor
• Slate-blue Seedeater, Amaurospiza relicta
• Carrizal Seedeater, Amaurospiza carrizalensis

Related to Darwin's finches

Genus Melopyrrha

• Cuban Bullfinch, Melopyrrha nigra

Genus Tiaris - grassquits

• Dull-colored Grassquit, Tiaris obscura
• Cuban Grassquit, Tiaris canora
• Yellow-faced Grassquit, Tiaris olivacea
• Black-faced Grassquit, Tiaris bicolor
• Sooty Grassquit, Tiaris fuliginosa

Genus Loxipasser

• Yellow-shouldered Grassquit, Loxipasser anoxanthus

Genus Euneornis

• Orangequit, Euneornis campestris

Genus Melanospiza

• St. Lucia Black Finch, Melanospiza richardsoni

Genus Loxigilla - Antillean bullfinches

• Puerto Rican Bullfinch, Loxigilla portoricensis
  • Saint Kitts Bullfinch, Loxigilla portoricensis grandis - extinct (1930)
• Greater Antillean Bullfinch, Loxigilla violacea
• Lesser Antillean Bullfinch, Loxigilla noctis

Atypical seedeaters

Genus Catamenia (3 species)

Genus Haplospiza

• Slaty Finch, Haplospiza rustica
• Uniform Finch, Haplospiza unicolor

Genus Acanthidops - Peg-billed Finch

Relatives of true seedeaters

These tanagers are the true seedeaters' closest relatives.

Genus Charitospiza

• Coal-crested Finch, Charitospiza eucosma

Genus Volatinia - Blue-black Grassquit

Genus Lophospingus

• Black-crested Finch, Lophospingus pusillus
• Gray-crested Finch, Lophospingus griseocristatus

Genus Sicalis - yellow-finches

• Puna Yellow-finch, Sicalis lutea
• Saffron Finch, Sicalis flaveola
• Grassland Yellow-finch, Sicalis luteola
• Stripe-tailed Yellow-finch, Sicalis citrina
• Bright-rumped Yellow-finch, Sicalis uropygialis
• Citron-headed Yellow-finch, Sicalis luteocephala
• Greater Yellow-finch, Sicalis auriventris
• Greenish Yellow-finch, Sicalis olivascens
• Patagonian Yellow-finch, Sicalis lebruni
• Orange-fronted Yellow-finch, Sicalis columbiana
• Raimondi's Yellow-finch, Sicalis raimondii
• Sulphur-throated Finch, Sicalis taczanowskii

External links

• Seedeater videos on the Internet Bird Collection