Blackish-blue Seedeater Amaurospiza moesta
Blackish-blue Seedeater, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 2022

The Blackish-blue Seedeater is distributed mainly in the Atlantic Rain Forest of south-east Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina with one or two records further north in Brazil. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. It is one of the small group of seedeaters that follow the flowering of bamboo.
Blackish-blue Seedeater, Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2022 - click for larger image The male is slaty blue, becoming almost blackish over the face to breast, whereas females are generally tawny-brown. These photos are of an immature male.

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