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Photo by Ciro Albano
Chapada Diamantina, state of Bahia, north-eastern Brazil, July 2009

Identification

South America: found only in eastern Brazil (interior of Minas Gerais and Bahia).

This is a monotypic species^[1].

Described 1997. Sometimes considered a subspecies of Pectoral Sparrow.

Caatinga.

Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Sao Francisco Sparrow. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 13 May 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Sao_Francisco_Sparrow