Nicaraguan Seed-finch | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Thraupidae |
Genus: | Oryzoborus |
Species: | O. nuttingi |
Binomial name | |
Oryzoborus nuttingi Ridgway, 1884 |
The Nicaraguan Seed-finch (Oryzoborus nuttingi) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family. It is found in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
The scientific name of this bird commemorates the zoologist Charles Cleveland Nutting.