View thousands of bird photos and video from around the world. Upload a photo/video View another gallery. Their colonization in Baja California Sur in new and believe to be via introduction. Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater (Sporophila torqueola). They are non-migratory and year-round residents.įrom a conservation perspective the Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater is currently considered to be of Least Concern, with stable, widely distributed populations. The atriceps subspecies is found within the Pacific lowlands of Baja California Sur and from southern Sonora to western Durango and south to Nayarit and northern Jalisco at elevations up to 2,000 m (6,600 feet). The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater is endemic to Mexico and found in Baja California Sur, and within the Pacific Slope from southern Sonora south to Oaxaca. The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater has been poorly studied and very little has been documented about their biology and behavioral patterns. They have life spans of up to twelve years. They are found in pairs or in flocks of several hundred individuals during non-breeding season. They feed on grass seeds supplemented by berries and insects. The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater are found primarily in grassy and weedy fields, agricultural lands, pastures, moist savanna, and beach scrub. Breeding males develop white in their throats and a dark stripe around their throats. The plumages of the males and females are similar during winter months being buffy brown and unstreaked above, pale cinnamon below being darker on the breast and flanks with a pale creamy chin, belly and vent. The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater are small in stature. They are a member of the large Thraupidae Family of Tanagers and Allies, which has three hundred eighty-one individual species that have been placed into one hundred seven genera, and one of forty-one global species of the Sporophila Genus. They are known in Mexico as semillero torcaz. The Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila torqueola atriceps, is one of two subspecies of Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater, both of which are found in Mexico. Photograph and identification courtesy of David F Smith, Alamos, Sonora. It will fit in a large jacket pocket, but generally has to be carried in a backpack or other bag. The Big Sibley is larger at 6.25 by 9.75 inches, and nearly twice as heavy at 2.5 pounds. At just under 5 by 8 inches, and under 1.5 pounds, they will fit into many pockets. Photograph taken within a residential community in Alamos, Sonora, December 2018. Size: The Eastern and Western guides are much smaller. Photograph and identification courtesy of David F Smith, Alamos, Sonora.Ĭinnamon-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila torqueola atriceps, Female. Photograph taken within a residential community in Alamos, Sonora, December 2018. Photograph and identification courtesy of David F Smith, Alamos, Sonora.Ĭinnamon-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila torqueola atriceps, Breeding Male. Photograph taken in Huatabampo, Sonora, April 2018. Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila torqueolaĬinnamon-rumped Seedeater, Sporophila torqueola atriceps, Male.
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