Thick-billed seed finch

Thick-billed seed finch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Thraupidae
Genus:Oryzoborus
Species: O. funereus
Binomial name
Oryzoborus funereus
Sclater, 1859

The thick-billed seed finch (Oryzoborus funereus) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, but was until recently placed in Emberizidae. It is found widely in shrubby and grassy areas from southern Mexico, through Central America, to the Chocó in Colombia and Ecuador. It is replaced by the closely related chestnut-bellied seed finch in South America east of the Andes, as well as the valleys of Cauca and Magdalena in Colombia. The two have often been considered conspecific as the lesser seed-finch (Oryzoborus angolensis).

The male is almost entirely black, with a small white wing patch. The female is a rich brown all over. They are both very similar to the all-black Caribbean slope form of the variable seedeater. It is distinguished, however, by a larger bill with a straight culmen.[2] They measure 11.5 cm (4.5 in) long and weight 13.5 g (0.48 oz).[3]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Oryzoborus funereus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Angehr, George R.; Dean, Robert (2010). The Birds of Panama. Ithaca: Zona Tropical/Comstock/Cornell University Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-8014-7674-7.
  3. ↑ Ramos-Ordoñez, M.F.; Rodríguez-Flores, C.; Soberanes-González, C.; Arizmendi, M.C. (2010). Schulenberg, T.S., ed. "Overview – Thick-billed seed-finch (Oryzoborus funereus)". Neotropical Birds Online. Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 29 September 2014. External link in |website= (help)
  • BirdLife species factsheet for Oryzoborus funereus
  • "Oryzoborus funereus". Avibase. Edit this at Wikidata
  • "Thick-billed seed-finch media". Internet Bird Collection.
  • Thick-billed seed-finch photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
  • Interactive range map of Oryzoborus funereus at IUCN Red List maps
  • Audio recordings of Thick-billed seed finch on Xeno-canto.


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