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Black-and-white Seedeater
Sporophila luctuosa (Lafresnaye, 1843)
Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies
Black-and-white Seedeater, Sporophila luctuosa, is a bird in the Thraupidae family that breeds across South America from Venezuela to Bolivia and moves to western Amazonia outside the breeding season. It is recorded from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Its range includes subtropical and tropical moist shrubland, subtropical and tropical high-altitude shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. Described by Lafresnaye in 1843, it belongs to the passerine order Passeriformes.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies
- Breeding range
- South America: Venezuela to Bolivia
- Nonbreeding range
- to w Amazonia
