Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Chestnut-bellied Seed-finch (Oryzoborus angolensis) - HBW 16, p. 663
French: Sporophile curio
German: Braunbauch-Reisknacker
Spanish: Semillero Curió
Other common names: Lesser Rice Grosbeak, Lesser Seed-Finch (when treated as conspecific with O. funereus)
Taxonomy: Loxia angolensis Linnaeus, 1766, Angola; error = eastern Brazil.
Genus sometimes subsumed in Sporophila. Molecular evidence suggests that genus as currently constituted may not be monophyletic, and some of its members may have closest relatives in Sporophila; more data necessary in order to resolve a basal polytomy in the phylogeny. Present species commonly treated as conspecific with O. funereus; they hybridize in S Colombia (upper Magdalena Valley), but apparently only to a limited extent. Proposed race theobromae (known from two specimens from upper Magdalena Valley in Tolima and Huila, in Colombia) is synonymized with torr.. View all taxonomy...
Genus sometimes subsumed in Sporophila. Molecular evidence suggests that genus as currently constituted may not be monophyletic, and some of its members may have closest relatives in Sporophila; more data necessary in order to resolve a basal polytomy in the phylogeny. Present species commonly treated as conspecific with O. funereus; they hybridize in S Colombia (upper Magdalena Valley), but apparently only to a limited extent. Proposed race theobromae (known from two specimens from upper Magdalena Valley in Tolima and Huila, in Colombia) is synonymized with torridus. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- torridus (Scopoli, 1769) - E & SE Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, the Guianas, and Amazonian Brazil S to lowlands of E Ecuador and E Peru.
- angolensis (Linnaeus, 1766) - C & E Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás and Piauí S to Rio Grande do Sul) to N & E Bolivia (Beni and Santa Cruz), Paraguay and extreme NE Argentina (Misiones).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male singing Locality Pousada Aguapé, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (ssp angolensis)
Josep del Hoyo 9 January 2005 3 years ago 29 sec 4.6 -
A close view of a male, calling Locality Río Grande Arriba, Península de Paria, Sucre State, Venezuela (ssp torridus)
DAVID ASCANIO 31 May 2007 4 years ago 32 sec 4.6 -
A female in a bush, flying away and perched again Locality Formosa Province, Argentina (ssp angolensis)
Josep del Hoyo 15 January 2005 4 years ago 17 sec 4.4 -
A pair perched together Locality Pousada Aguapé, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (ssp angolensis)
Josep del Hoyo 9 January 2005 3 years ago 6 sec 3.8
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An adult male singing
Locality Roraima State, Brazil
MARCELO CAMACHO 1 October 2011 19 weeks ago 4.6 -
A female.
Locality Nilo, Cundinamarca Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 15 October 2010 1 year ago 3.6 -
Rear view of a male perched on a branch.
Locality Iguazú National Park, Misiones Province, Argentina (ssp angolensis)
Carmelo López 5 November 2011 4 weeks ago 3.3 -
One adult female perched
Locality Bom Sucesso de Itararé, São Paulo State, Brazil
Carlos Gussoni 1 April 2008 1 year ago 2.9 -
A bird in a tree
Locality Transpantaneira Road, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
Aleix Comas 25 August 2008 2 years ago 2
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Unsolicited. Locality Ituberá, Bahia State, Brazil
(ssp angolensis)
Ciro Albano 22 December 2007 2 years ago 4
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