Slate-coloured Seedeater

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Slate-coloured Seedeater
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Sporophila
Species: S. schistacea
Binomial name
Sporophila schistacea
Lawrence, 1862

The Slate-coloured Seedeater (Sporophila schistacea) is a bird species in the family Thraupidae (formerly in Emberizidae). It is found in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.

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