Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Thraupidae > Sporophila > Sporophila nigricollis

Sporophila nigricollis (Yellow-bellied Seedeater)

Synonyms: Pyrrhula nigricollis (homotypic); Pyrrhula spec; Sporophila melanops

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-bellied seedeater (Sporophila nigricollis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, formerly placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Grenada, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. It has occurred as a vagrant in Saint Vincent. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, pastureland, and heavily degraded former forest.
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Infraspecies

Sporophila nigricollis inconspicua
Sporophila nigricollis nigricollis
Sporophila nigricollis olivacea

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
4
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.73468
EDGE Score: 1.00602
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical grasslands, Second-growth scrub
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical grasslands, Second-growth scrub
Clutch Size [3]  2
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Fledging [1]  10 days
Incubation [1]  12 days

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0