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title: "Rusty-collared Seedeater"
description: "Sporophila collaris — Birds. The rusty-collared seedeater (Sporophila collaris) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, formerly placed in the related Emberizidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/rusty-collared-seedeater
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rusty-collared Seedeater

> Sporophila collaris — Birds. The rusty-collared seedeater (Sporophila collaris) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, formerly placed in the related Emberizidae.

- Scientific name: *Sporophila collaris*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Fields & meadows), `freshwater` (Lakes & rivers)
- iNaturalist observations: 1712
- Wikidata: [Q3121356](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3121356)
- iNaturalist taxon: [9516](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9516)

## Names

- en: Rusty-collared Seedeater
- de: Erzpfäffchen
- es: Corbatita dominó
- fr: Sporophile à col fauve
- nl: Roestnekdikbekje
- pt: Coleiro-do-brejo
- pl: Ziarnojadek maskowy

## Countries with the most observations

AR (840), BR (592), UY (86), BO (69), PY (38)

## Summary

The rusty-collared seedeater (Sporophila collaris) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, formerly placed in the related Emberizidae.
It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.
The rusty-collared seedeater was included by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1775 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty-collared_seedeater

## Photo

![Rusty-collared Seedeater](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rusty-collared-seedeater/medium.jpg)

Photo: Diego Carús · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/35353218

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rusty-collared-seedeater?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).