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- noun Plural form of
seedeater .
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Examples
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Our kind is lucky that these brave, strong, devoted birds are seedeaters.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Birds found here and in only few other places include white-bellied seedeaters Sporophila leucoptera, grassland yellow-finches Sicalis luteola, chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus, tropical peewees Contopus cinereus, rufous-throated antbirds Gymnopithys rufigula, black-breasted puffbirds Notharchus pectoralis, and plain-bellied emeralds Amazilia leucogaster.
Marajó varzea 2008
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Other birds sometimes seen here include the black-faced hawk Leucopternis melanops, red-shouldered macaw Diopsittaca nobilis, painted parakeet Pyrrhura picta and savannah seedeaters Sporophila spp.
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Immediate threats result from urban sprawl resulting in subsistence hunting and wood collecting, collecting of species for the pet trade (especially primates, seed-finches and seedeaters, macaws and parrots).
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The marsh and Entre Ríos seedeaters are also found in riparian thickets.
Uruguayan savanna 2007
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The cones are a source of food for seedeaters, and the swarms of larvae on the needles are a feast for caterpillar connoisseurs.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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The cones are a source of food for seedeaters, and the swarms of larvae on the needles are a feast for caterpillar connoisseurs.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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The cones are a source of food for seedeaters, and the swarms of larvae on the needles are a feast for caterpillar connoisseurs.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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She had been creeping up in the hope of catching one of those happy little seedeaters.
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Black-eyed Susans and sunflowers attract seedeaters.
American Profile 2009
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