Lesson's Seedeater

Lesson's Seedeater
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Sporophila
Species: S. bouvronides
Binomial name
Sporophila bouvronides
(Lesson, 1831)

Lesson's Seedeater (Sporophila bouvronides) is a bird species in the family Thraupidae (formerly in Emberizidae).

It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.

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