Great-billed Seed Finch
Sporophila maximiliani(Cabanis, JL, 1851)
English (US) Great-billed Seed Finch
The Great-billed Seed Finch (Sporophila maximiliani) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Thraupidae (Tanagers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: eastern Venezuela (now rare), and at least formerly western Guyana, eastern French Guiana, and northern Brazil (no recent records), and disjunctly central and eastern Brazil (now rare)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Sporophila maximiliani
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Great-billed Seed Finch
- Described by
- (Cabanis, JL, 1851)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oryzoborus maximiliani
- Described by
- (Cabanis, JL, 1851)
- Original description
- Museum Heineanum. Verzeichniss der orithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine 1 p.151,note
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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