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Sporophila corvina · Family Thraupidae
Sporophila corvina
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 330,235
- Countries and territories with records
- 11
About this species
This species has 330,235 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (55.6%), Panama (22.5%), Ecuador (10.2%), Belize (4.2%) and Colombia (3%); together they account for 95.5% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.7% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sporophila corvina combines the genus name Sporophila with the species epithet corvina. The Warbla app catalog lists 41 species of the genus Sporophila; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sporophila morelleti, Sporophila nigricollis and Sporophila caerulescens.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 6.4 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.