White-bellied seedeater

White-bellied seedeater
female
Male in São Paulo, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Sporophila
Species: S. leucoptera
Binomial name
Sporophila leucoptera
(Vieillot, 1817)

The white-bellied seedeater (Sporophila leucoptera) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Suriname. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

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