White-collared seedeater
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Sporophila |
| Species: | S. torqueola |
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Sporophila torqueola (Bonaparte, 1850) |
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The white-collared seedeater (Sporophila torqueola) is a passerine bird in the typical seedeater genus Sporophila.
This species has two distinctive subspecies groups which are not known to intergrade, and are thus sometimes considered to be separate species. The S. (t.) torqueola group, comprising the subspecies torqueola and atriceps and commonly known as the cinnamon-rumped seedeater, is found from Sinaloa and Durango to western and southern Oaxaca; the S. (t.) morelleti group, comprising the subspecies morelleti, sharpei, and mutanda and commonly known as the white-rumped seedeater, is found throughout the rest of the species' range.
It ranges from a small area along the Rio Grande near San Ignacio, Texas in the United States south through Mexico and Central America to Panama. It mainly inhabits tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands but can also be found in pastures, arable land, and heavily degraded former forests.
The white-collared seedeater eats mainly seeds and insects, and occasionally berries. It forages often top of herbaceous plants, and less often on the ground. In captive, it drinks and bathes often, but in the wild no drinking was observed, even though more than 300 hours of field notes were taken.
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