Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Sporophila funerea

Thick-billed Seed-Finch, Rio Silanche, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image Rio Silanche, Pichincha, Ecuador
November 2019

The Thick-billed Seed-Finch is distributed from southern Mexico through Central America to north-west South America. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. It is found in shrubby areas on the edge of humid forest and is more arboreal than other seedeaters.

In the past it has been lumped with Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch S angolensis but is visually very different being entirely black. It is also found on the western flanks of the Andes while the Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch is to the east of the Andes.

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