Nicaraguan Seed-finch

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Nicaraguan Seed-finch
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Emberizidae
Genus: Oryzoborus
Species: O. nuttingi
Binomial name
Oryzoborus nuttingi
Ridgway, 1884

The Nicaraguan Seed-finch (Oryzoborus nuttingi) is a species of bird in the Emberizidae family. It is found in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, swamps, and heavily degraded former forest.

The scientific name of this bird commemorates the zoologist Charles Cleveland Nutting.

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