Species profile
Lined Seedeater
Sporophila lineola
Quick answer
Breeds in northeastern Brazil, migrating to Venezuela, the Guinas, and northeastern Amazonian Brazil. Also breeds from southern Bolivia to southern Brazil, south to Paraguay and northern Argentina; migrating to Amazonia. Seasonal status (migrant or resident) in some regions not clear
- Scientific name
- Sporophila lineola
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Sporophila
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Lined Seedeater in your journal
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Related species in Thraupidae
- Ash-breasted Sierra-finch (Geospizopsis plebejus)
- Azure-rumped Tanager (Poecilostreptus cabanisi)
- Azure-shouldered Tanager (Thraupis cyanoptera)
- Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
- Band-tailed Seedeater (Catamenia analis)
- Band-tailed Sierra Finch (Porphyrospiza alaudina)
- Barbados Bullfinch (Loxigilla barbadensis)
- Bay-chested Warbling-finch (Castanozoster thoracicus)