Abundance: 0.06 to 19.53% (median 1.98%)
Latitudinal range: -27.2° to 18.5°Habitats: desert/xeric shrubland (1), temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (4), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (22), tropical/subtropical savanna (6)
Found in 34 samples
Argentina: Camino, El Rey National Park (Selva Basal, dry season 1994)
Belize: Blue Creek Village (Indian Village), Blue Creek Village (Pig Alley)
Bolivia: Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, El Porvenir (birds)
Brazil: Estaçäo Ecológica de Águas Emendadas, Serra da Canastra National Park, Fazenda Brejäo, Federal University of Acre, Vermelho River (edge)
Costa Rica: La Selva Biological Station (gap), La Selva Biological Station (intact forest)
Guatemala: Finca Caobanal, Puerto Barrios (mist netted birds)
Honduras: Centro de Investigacíon y Jardín Botânico Lancetilla
Mexico: Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve (birds), Palenque National Park (control sites), Palenque National Park (connected sites), Palenque National Park (unconnected sites)
Nicaragua: Siuna (birds, primary forest), Siuna (birds, secondary forest), Siuna (birds, allspice), Siuna (birds, pasture)
Panama: Chiva Chiva Road (early shrub), Chiva Chiva Road (late shrub), Limbo Hunt Club (forest), Mamoní Valley
Paraguay: Para La Tierra Biological Station
Peru: West of Pucallpa, Plantación Tupac
Venezuela: Este del Lago de Valencia (rainy season), Cumanâ, Araya Peninsula (tropical thorn scrub)
See also Sporophila americana, Sporophila angolensis, Sporophila caerulescens, Sporophila castaneiventris, Sporophila collaris, Sporophila corvina, Sporophila hypoxantha, Sporophila leucoptera, Sporophila lineola, Sporophila minuta, Sporophila murallae, Sporophila nigricollis, Sporophila plumbea, Sporophila schistacea, Sporophila sp., Sporophila torqueola