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Carrizal Seedeater
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Carrizal Seedeater
Amaurospiza carrizalensis
The Carrizal seedeater (Amaurospiza carrizalensis) is a recently discovered species of seedeater. These are birds in the family Cardinalidae, long placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae.
From the article Carrizal seedeater on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Carrizal seedeater is 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 12 to 14 g (0.42 to 0.49 oz). The male is a glossy dark slaty blue that is darker on the face and underparts. The female's upperparts are warm brown and the underparts yellow-buff, darker on the flanks.
Range & habitat
The specimens of Carrizal seedeater were collected on Isla Carrizal in the Caroni River of northern Venezuela. Construction of the Tocoma Dam, which began in 2006, flooded the island. The species has since been found elsewhere in the Caroni River watershed. It is known only from stands of spiny Guadua and Ripidocladus species of bamboo in deciduous forest.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
What it does
The crops of the Carrizal seedeater specimens contained beetles and vegetable matter.
Wikipedia: “Feeding”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72491.