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Morelet's Seedeater
Sporophila morelleti · Family Thraupidae
Sporophila morelleti
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 317,564
- Countries and territories with records
- 11
About this species
This species has 317,564 occurrence records from 11 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Belize (35%), Mexico (18.3%), Costa Rica (17.7%), Guatemala (12.3%) and Honduras (8%); together they account for 91.3% of the total. In Belize, this species accounts for 1.5% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sporophila morelleti combines the genus name Sporophila with the species epithet morelleti. The Warbla app catalog lists 41 species of the genus Sporophila; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sporophila corvina, Sporophila nigricollis and Sporophila caerulescens.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 6.1 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.