Plain Colored Seedeater
27 January 2012 16:42 Filed in: Thraupidae Tanagers Seedeaters Ecuador Pichincha Yanacocha Papallacta

Copyright: monacoeye • All rights reserved • Ecuador, March 2011
Bird name: Plain Colored Seedeater
Latin: Catamenia inornata
Other: Plain-coloured Seedeater (UK) • Semillero sencillo (Es)
Family: Thraupidae • Tanagers, Seedeaters
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina
Similar: Catamenia seedeaters
I saw these Plain-colored Seedeaters at around 3000 metres altitude in Ecuador.
The male (above) Plain-colored Seedeater is greyish with orange bill and rufous crissum (under base of tail). The female (below) is streaked and brownish.
Below, female Plain-colored Seedeater, Papallacta, Ecuador.

Below, male Plain-colored Seedeater, Ecoruta, Ecuador.

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