Species profile
Tropeiro Seedeater
Sporophila beltoni
Quick answer
breeds southern Brazil (Paraná south to Rio Grande do Sul); migrates north to Goiás, Minas Gerais, and southwestern Bahia
- Scientific name
- Sporophila beltoni
- Family
- Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Sporophila
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
Recording Tropeiro 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)