| Variable Seedeater Sporophila corvina (aka Black-breasted Seedeater Sporophila corvina ophthalmica) Colombian name: Espiguero Variable |
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Montezuma, Tatamá, Risaralda, Colombia April 2012 The Variable Seedeater is distributed from Costa Rica through Panama and along the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador to north-west Peru. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. |
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Authorities such as Clements and eBird lump this species with Black Seedeater S. corvina of Central America but the HBW and Birdlife International checklist splits them on the basis of the very different plumages of the males and, to a lesser extent, the females. The sub-species of S. corvina found in north-west Colombia, S. c. hicksii, has whitish underparts with black blotches especially on the flanks, a black chin and a broad black breastband. The female, seen here in photo 2, is brown and olive above, paler below with a pale yellow-green malar stripe. | |||
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The song is a variable but musical twittering. |
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