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Yellow-bellied Seedeater
Sporophila nigricollis · Family Thraupidae
Sporophila nigricollis
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 233,045
- Countries and territories with records
- 22
About this species
This species has 233,045 occurrence records from 22 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (58.3%), Brazil (11.4%), Ecuador (10.9%), Venezuela (7.6%) and Panama (5.6%); together they account for 93.8% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.51% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sporophila nigricollis combines the genus name Sporophila with the species epithet nigricollis. 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 morelleti and Sporophila caerulescens.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 20th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 4.5 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.