Variable Seedeater

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Thraupidae

Genus

Sporophila

eBird Code

varsee3

Subspecies (4)

• Sporophila corvina corvina

  Caribbean slope of eastern Mexico (Veracruz) southward to western Panama (Bocas del Toro); intergrades with Sporophila corvina hicksii in central Panama (Canal Zone)

• Sporophila corvina hicksii

  Pacific slope of Panama from central Veraguas eastward to Darién, the Atlantic slope of eastern Panama, and the Pacific slope of Colombia southward to Valle

• Sporophila corvina hoffmanni

  Pacific slope of southern Costa Rica and of western Panama (Chiriquí)

• Sporophila corvina ophthalmica

  Pacific slope from southwestern Colombia through Ecuador to northwestern Peru (southward to La Libertad)