Seedeater

Sporophila is a genus of Neotropical birds in the Thraupidae family. The seed finches are sometimes also included in this genus.

They are relatively small with stubby, conical bills adapted for feeding on seeds and alike. Most species are strongly sexually dimorphic, and while "typical" adult males often are distinctive, female and immatures of both sexes can be very difficult (in some species virtually impossible) to identify to exact species. Females of at least some of these species have different ultraviolet colours, which can be seen by birds, but not humans. Female-like (paedomorphic) males apparently also occur, at least in some species.

Species
There are more than 30 species of Sporophila:
 * Lesson's Seedeater, Sporophila bouvronides
 * Lined Seedeater, Sporophila lineola
 * White-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila leucoptera
 * Parrot-billed Seedeater, Sporophila peruviana
 * Chestnut-throated Seedeater, Sporophila telasco – the "Tumaco Seedeater" is a stereotyped hybrid between this species and S. minuta
 * Drab Seedeater, Sporophila simplex
 * Chestnut-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila castaneiventris
 * Ruddy-breasted Seedeater, Sporophila minuta
 * Copper Seedeater / Capped Seedeater, Sporophila bouvreuil
 * Chestnut Seedeater, Sporophila cinnamomea
 * Narosky's Seedeater, S. cinnamomea X S. palustris or a colour morph of S. cinnamomea
 * Black-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila melanogaster
 * Rufous-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila hypochroma
 * Pearly-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila pileata
 * Marsh Seedeater, Sporophila palustris
 * Tawny-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila hypoxantha
 * Dark-throated Seedeater, Sporophila ruficollis
 * Black-and-tawny Seedeater, Sporophila nigrorufa
 * Thick-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila funerea
 * Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch, Sporophila angolensis
 * Nicaraguan Seed-Finch, Sporophila nuttingi
 * Great-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila maximiliani
 * Large-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila crassirostris
 * Black-billed Seed-Finch, Sporophila atrirostris
 * Variable Seedeater, Sporophila corvina
 * Grey Seedeater, Sporophila intermedia
 * Caqueta Seedeater, Sporophila murallae
 * Wing-barred Seedeater, Sporophila americana
 * White-collared Seedeater, Sporophila torqueola
 * White-naped Seedeater, Sporophila fringilloides
 * Black-and-white Seedeater, Sporophila luctuosa
 * Double-collared Seedeater, Sporophila caerulescens
 * Yellow-bellied Seedeater, Sporophila nigricollis
 * Hooded Seedeater, Sporophila melanops – possibly extinct (20th century?), a hybrid or a color morph of S. nigricollis
 * Dubois's Seedeater, Sporophila ardesiaca – possibly a subspecies or color morph of S. nigricollis
 * Slate-coloured Seedeater, Sporophila schistacea
 * Buffy-fronted Seedeater, Sporophila frontalis
 * Temminck's Seedeater, Sporophila falcirostris
 * Plumbeous Seedeater, Sporophila plumbea
 * Tropeiro Seedeater, Sporophila beltoni
 * Rusty-collared Seedeater, Sporophila collaris
 * White-throated Seedeater, Sporophila albogularis