- Entre Ríos Seedeater
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Entre Ríos Seedeater Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Thraupidae Genus: Sporophila Species: S. zelichi Binomial name Sporophila zelichi
Narosky, 1977The Entre Ríos Seedeater or Narosky's Seedeater (Sporophila zelichi) is a kind of bird in the tanager family, found in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Here it is listed a separate species, but this status is open to strong doubt. The American Ornithologists' Union's South American Classification Committee has accepted a proposal to remove it from their list on the grounds that it is merely a color morph of the Marsh Seedeater.[1]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- ^ Areta, Nacho, et al. (2008). "Eliminate Sporophila zelichi from the main list". Proposal (#376) to South American Classification Committee. http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop376.html. Retrieved 2009-11-22.
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