Carrizal Seedeater

Taxobox
name = Carrizal Seedeater
status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
subclassis = Neornithes
infraclassis = Neognathae
superordo = Neoaves
ordo = Passeriformes
subordo = Passeri
infraordo = Passerida
superfamilia = Passeroidea
familia = see text
genus = "Amaurospiza"
species = "A. carrizalensis"
binomial = "Amaurospiza carrizalensis"
binomial_authority = Lentino & Restall, 2003

The Carrizal Seedeater, "Amaurospiza carrizalensis", is a recently discovered species of seedeater. These are birds in the family Thraupidae or Cardinalidae, long placed with the American sparrows in the Emberizidae.

This bird lived on Isla Carrizal in the Caura River, in northern Venezuela.

The males are gray with blue flecks, and the females are yellow.

The species has been described based on three specimens; its only known habitat – spiny bamboo on that island – has been cleared to allow construction of a dam, but researchers are hopeful of finding the birds living elsewhere.

References

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=32172&m=0 Birdlife International Species Factsheet – Carrizal Seedeater]