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Genus: Oryzoborus (6 species)

Genus Oryzoborus, Seed Finches, are small seed-eating tanagers with larger and thicker bills than birds called seedeaters.


Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch (Oryzoborus angolensis torridus) Male Range: SA: n, e Amazonia Villavicencio, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch (Oryzoborus angolensis torridus) Female Range: SA: n, e Amazonia Villavicencio, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Once considered the same species at the all black [Thick-billed Seed Finch]. HBW writes there is some hybridization in the Madgalena Valley of Colombia.


Black-billed Seed Finch (Oryzoborus atrirostris atrirostris) Male Range: SA: Colombia to Bolivia Rioja, San Martín, Peru
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Large-billed Seed Finch (Oryzoborus crassirostris) Male Range: SA: n and w SA Ecuador
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Large-billed Seed Finch (Oryzoborus crassirostris) Female Range: SA: n and w SA Cocorna, Antioquia, Colombia The male is black with a light-colored bill. Female is similar to [Thick-billed Seed Finch] (ID of this photo not certain).
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Very rare and unreliable.


Thick-billed Seed Finch (Oryzoborus funereus ochrogyne) Male Range: MA, SA: se Mexico to w Ecuador Bahia Solano, Choco, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Thick-billed Seed Finch (Oryzoborus funereus) Female Range: MA, SA: se Mexico to w Ecuador Darien, Panama
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

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Great-billed Seed Finch (Oryzoborus maximiliani) Range: SA: e Bolivia to c and e Brazil. Also Trinidad and e Venezuela; w Guyana and e French Guiana to n Brazil


Nicaraguan Seed Finch (Oryzoborus nuttingi) Male Range: MA: Nicaragua to Panama Medio Queso, Los Chiles, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.


Nicaraguan Seed Finch (Oryzoborus nuttingi) Female Range: MA: Nicaragua to Panama Medio Queso, Los Chiles, Costa Rica
Photograph by Jorge Obando Gutierrez © Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Nicaragua       Cuba