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adult male
Photo by Peter R. Bono
El Ocote, west of Tuxtla Guttierez, Chiapas, Mexico, July 2009

Amaurospiza concolor

Includes: Slate-blue Seedeater

[edit] Identification

Male very dark blue except in relicta which is more slaty, female cinnamon-brown.

[edit] Distribution

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru.

[edit] Taxonomy

Three subspecies recognized, which does not overlap in range with each other.
Subspecies relicta from Mexico west of Isthmus is sometimes split as Slate-blue Seedeater.

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. Howell & Webb, 1995. A guide to the birds of Mexico and northern Central America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198540124

• List of references

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