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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Blacktoft Sands]]'''</div>
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<div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Pearly-bellied Seedeater]]'''</div>
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[[Image:Blacktoft_Sands.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Photo by {{user|delia+todd|Delia Todd}}]]
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[[Image:PearlybelliedSeedeaterXP.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Photo by {{user|Xyko+Paludo|Xyko Paludo}}]]
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==Overview==
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==Distribution==
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At the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Trent, this reserve lies on the Inner Humber estuary and consists of extensive tidal reedbeds and saltmarsh with artificially created brackish lagoons.<br />
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Eastern [[Paraguay]] to north-eastern [[Argentina]] (Corrientes and Misiones), southern [[Brazil]] (SW Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso). Also locally to N [[Uruguay]]. Has also been recorded in [[Bolivia]] (Santa Cruz).
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The brackish reedswamp here is one of the largest remaining areas of this declining habitat in the country. Some rough grassland occurs and areas of willow scrub have been established to provide extra habitat, a recent acquisition has brought extra grazing marshes into the reserve.<br />
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Ranges of [[Pearly-bellied Seedeater]] and [[Copper Seedeater]] overlap in parts of Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais states.
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More than 170 species are recorded annually at Blacktoft Sands.
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==Taxonomy==
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===Notable Species===
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This is a [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] species.<br />
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Breeding waders include [[Pied Avocet|Avocet]], [[Little Ringed Plover]] and [[Northern Lapwing]], [[Common Snipe]] and [[Common Redshank]] and of the waterfowl, [[Mute Swan]], [[Common Shelduck]], [[Gadwall]], [[Mallard]], [[Common Teal]], [[Northern Shoveler]] and [[Common Pochard]] breed. Feral [[Greylag Goose]] and [[Canada Goose]] breed and [[Ruddy Duck]] has nested in recent years
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It was formerly included in [[Capped Seedeater]] together with [[Copper Seedeater]] -- there are areas of overlap between these two species.
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====Diet====
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The diet consists almost entirely of grass seeds.
  
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Revision as of 13:35, 1 August 2017

Featured Article: Pearly-bellied Seedeater
Photo by Xyko Paludo

Distribution

Eastern Paraguay to north-eastern Argentina (Corrientes and Misiones), southern Brazil (SW Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso). Also locally to N Uruguay. Has also been recorded in Bolivia (Santa Cruz). Ranges of Pearly-bellied Seedeater and Copper Seedeater overlap in parts of Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais states.

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
It was formerly included in Capped Seedeater together with Copper Seedeater -- there are areas of overlap between these two species.

Diet

The diet consists almost entirely of grass seeds.

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