Amaurospiza
Sign in to saveAmaurospiza is a genus of seed-eating birds in the cardinal family Cardinalidae that are found in Central and South America.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Amaurospiza is referenced by 346 other articles, and connects out to bird, Fringillidae and Emberiza.
Vinony files it under Amaurospiza, Bird genera and Seedeaters.
Its subject is documented across 21 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyCardinalidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Cardinalidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, LSUMZ
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Peru
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cardinalidae
- Image
- Amaurospiza moesta - Blackish-blue seedeater (male).JPG
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Encyclopedic overview
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Amaurospiza is a genus of seed-eating birds in the cardinal family Cardinalidae that are found in Central and South America.
These blue seedeaters are allopatrically distributed and show only small differences in plumage coloration and body measurements. They are sexually dimorphic in plumage: the male is slaty blue while the female is tawny brown. They favour bamboo thickets where they feed on buds, shoots and insects.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amaurospiza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.