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Great-billed Seed Finch
Sporophila maximiliani (Cabanis, 1851)
Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies
Great-billed Seed Finch, Sporophila maximiliani, is a passerine of the Thraupidae family found in South America, from eastern Bolivia through central and eastern Brazil, and also in Trinidad, eastern Venezuela, western Guyana, eastern French Guiana and northern Brazil. It occurs in moist shrubland, swamps and badly altered former forest, with separate populations in the northern Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado. It uses flooded places and places its nests close to the ground. Adults show marked differences between the sexes, and both sexes have very large, thick bills.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae — Tanagers & Allies
- Breeding range
- South America: e Bolivia to c, e Brazil; also Trinidad and e Venezuela; w Guyana and e French Guiana to n Brazil
