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Male S. m. morelleti in breeding plumage
Photo © by Stanley Jones
Puntarenas, Costa Rica, March 2007

Sporophila morellleti

Identification

Typical overall appearance of a seedeater. The breeding male is easily identified in its range, with a dark head and back, a single while collar above a black breast band, stubby dark bill with curved culmen, buffy belly, short tail and double white wingbars. The male outside breeding keeps the blackish wings with wing bars and has crown still mottled with dark, but is otherwise similar to female. The female is overall a drab light brown.

Female S. m. morelleti
Photo © by Joseph Morlan
Crooked Tree Village, Belize, 26 January 2011

Variation

The black bib/breast band and the white collar in the male varies between weak in subspecies sharpei and much stronger in e.g., moreletti^[2]. The second has underparts white to pale buff.

Similar Species

Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater of West Mexico is similar but lacks wing-bars.

Distribution

North America and Central America
Eastern Mexico and the far southern Rio Grande Valley in Texas; additionally along the Caribbean slope south to western Panama.

Taxonomy

The former White-collared Seedeater has been split into this species and the Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater.

Male S. m. sharpei
Photo © by Raul_Padilla
Huejutla, Mexico, 24 March 2010

Subspecies

This is a polytypic species consisting of two subspecies^[1]:

S. m. sharpei:

Southern Texas (lower Rio Grande Valley) to eastern Mexico (Veracruz)

S. m. morelleti:

Caribbean slope of southern Mexico (Veracruz) to extreme western Panama

Habitat

Grassy and weedy areas near cane.

Behaviour

Diet

The diet includes seeds.

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Birdforum thread discussing id of White-collared Seedeater
Adel, F., K. J. Burns, J. C. Eitniear, and T. S. Schulenberg (2010). Morelet's/Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti/torqueola), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.whcsee.01
Eitniear, J. C. (2018). Morelet's Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti), version 1.2. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.whcsee1.01.2
del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N. (2018). White-collared Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/1344179 on 22 November 2018).

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Morelet's Seedeater. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 17 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Morelet%27s_Seedeater

External Links

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 ==References==
 #{{Ref-Clements6thAug18}}#[http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=1769270 Birdforum thread] discussing id of White-collared Seedeater
+#Adel, F., K. J. Burns, J. C. Eitniear, and T. S. Schulenberg (2010). Morelet's/Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater (''Sporophila morelleti/torqueola''), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.whcsee.01
+#Eitniear, J. C. (2018). Morelet's Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti), version 1.2. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.whcsee1.01.2
+#del Hoyo, J. & Collar, N. (2018). White-collared Seedeater (Sporophila morelleti). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/1344179 on 22 November 2018).
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 ==External Links==
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