Blue seedeater
| Blue seedeater | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cardinalidae |
| Genus: | Amaurospiza |
| Species: | A. concolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Amaurospiza concolor Cabanis, 1861 | |
The blue seedeater (Amaurospiza concolor) is a species of bird in the family Cardinalidae. It was formerly placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae.[2] It is found in highland forest and woodland, mainly near bamboo, in southern Mexico and Central America with a disjunct population in south-western Colombia, through Ecuador, to northern Peru. The population in south-western Mexico has a paler plumage than the other populations and has sometimes been considered a separate species, the slate-blue seedeater (A. relicta), but today all major authorities include this as a subspecies of the blue seedeater. Due to its association with bamboo, it is often local and erratic in occurrence, but overall it is not considered threatened and therefore listed as Least Concern by BirdLife International and IUCN.[1]
References
- 1 2 BirdLife International (2012). "Amaurospiza concolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ ITIS still places this species in the Emberizidae family. See "Amaurospiza concolor". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
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