Order: Passeriformes | Family: Thraupidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Lambayeque|Arequipa
Age: Adult | Sex: Males | Loc. Camana|Ventanilla
Age: Adult | Sex: Females | Loc. Arequipa|Cajamarca
Age: Adult | Sex: Females | Loc. Lima, Peru
Status: The Chestnut-throated Seedeater is common along the coastal lowland and also the Marañon Drainage where it is known to range up to 700 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, and Ch.
Name in Spanish: Espiguero de Garganta Castaña.
Sub-species: Chestnut-throated Seedeater (Sporophila telasco), (Lesson), 1828.
Meaning of Name: Sporophila: Gr. sporos= seed and philos= lover. telasco: Telasco, an Inca warrior in Jean François Marmontel’s novel ‘Les Incas, ou la destruction de l’Empire du Pérou’.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 03/01/2016.