Ibera Seedeater (Sporophila digiacomoi)

About the Ibera Seedeater

The Ibera seedeater (Sporophila iberaensis) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, formerly included within the family of American sparrows (Emberizidae). It is found in the Iberá Wetlands. It was described in 2016. The specific epithet iberaensis refers to the species' main distribution throughout the Iberá Wetlands in the province of Corrientes, Argentina.

Source: Ibera seedeater on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Note: xeno-canto lists this bird as Sporophila digiacomoi; the encyclopaedia entry uses the name it was first described under, Sporophila iberaensis (SACC proposal 715 moved the species to digiacomoi).

A real field recording of the Ibera Seedeater. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:45) via xeno-canto.org/511738, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay · xeno-canto lists 50 recordings for this species in total.

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