Gray Seedeater - BirdForum Opus

Subspecies intermedia
Photo by nigel lallsingh
Carli bay Trinidad, November 2011

Sporophila intermedia

Identification

11 cm

Distribution

Trinidad and South America
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil.

On a local scale, Gray Seedeater and Wing-barred Seedeater seems to exclude each others presence.

Taxonomy

Gray Seedeater, Variable Seedeater, Wing-barred Seedeater, and Caqueta Seedeater are best viewed as a superspecies of closely related species.

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• S. i. bogotensis (agustini):

• Colombia (Western Andes, Magdalena and Cauca valleys)

• S. i. anchicayae:

• Colombia (valley of the Río Anchicayá in Valle)

• S. i. intermedia:

• Eastern Colombia to northern Venezuela, western Guyana and north-eastern Brazil; Trinidad

Habitat

Urban and rural regions. Grassy areas, dry to humid habitat, gallery forest borders.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of seeds, with nectar and small arthropods also taken.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2013. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.8., with updates to August 2013. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. SACC proposal to recognize Caqueta Seedeater
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Gray Seedeater. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 25 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Gray_Seedeater

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