Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Great-billed Seed-finch (Oryzoborus maximiliani) - HBW 16, p. 664
French: Sporophile de Maximilien
German: Maximilianreisknacker
Spanish: Semillero de Maximilian
Other common names: Greater Seed-finch
Taxonomy: Oryzoborus maximiliani Cabanis, 1851, River Espírito Santo, Espírito Santo, and Caravellas, Bahia, 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. Formerly considered conspecific with O. nuttingi, O. crassirostris and O. atrirostris; race occidentalis of O. crassirostris often placed in present species; taxonomy of this group still in flux. If present species is placed in genus Sporophila, name magnirostris bec.. 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. Formerly considered conspecific with O. nuttingi, O. crassirostris and O. atrirostris; race occidentalis of O. crassirostris often placed in present species; taxonomy of this group still in flux. If present species is placed in genus Sporophila, name magnirostris becomes preoccupied, and must be replaced by parkesi. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- magnirostris Phelps, Sr & Phelps, Jr, 1950 - E Venezuela (SE Sucre S to Delta Amacuro, and N Bolívar along S bank of R Orinoco), W Guyana and E French Guiana to N Brazil (Amapá and N Pará).
- maximiliani Cabanis, 1851 - C & E Brazil (N Goiás, C Piauí and Bahia S to C Mato Grosso and N São Paulo).
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
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A dorsal and a front view of a male singing Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 January 2005 4 years ago 53 sec 4.4 -
A male perched and flying to another tree Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 11 January 2005 4 years ago 34 sec 4.4 -
A male singing from a branch. Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Bruno Lima 14 September 2009 2 years ago 11 sec 3
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a male
Locality Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil
Victor Castro 15 April 2010 24 weeks ago 3.3 -
A sub-adult male in a cage.
Locality Caño Colorado, Maturín, Monagas State, Venezuela (Monotypic species)
philgunson 2 January 2009 3 years ago 2
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Male singing from bamboo. Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil
Bruno Lima 14 September 2009 2 years ago 4
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