Temminck's Seedeater

11 cm. Bill yellow. Male slaty gray. Breast in the middle and belly white. Wings and tail blackish, the wings with a white speculum and one white wing bar. <NThe female is brownish olive above, with paler underparts, the center of the belly yellowish white. Call "zia" or "irit". Song a sequence of very high frequency notes "si si si si si si si si si si si ending on an "imp" note,1 sec ^119 . The song recorded by Juan Mazar Barnett vocalization 1 consists of a 0,5 sec long trill of 20 sounds followed by a longer sequence of higher frequency "si" sounds, up to 15 single sounds in 3 sec. A forest seedeater that forages in trees and bamboo thickets found usually singly and very rarely in small flocks. Iguazu National Park, Parana August. Rare and nomadic, probably on the verge of extinction ^119 due to deforestation: in humid forest and border. Appeared in the past when the bamboo was bearing seeds. Coastal humid forests and high serras. In Estado Rio de Janeiro found in<8E>Desengano State Park Riberao Vermelha and Santa Maria Madalena , Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis, S<C4>o Aleixo, Tingua, Serra Mantiqueira, Parati. In Estado S<C4>o Paulo found in<8E>Lagoinha, Picinguaba, Ubatuba, Juquia, Iguape, Riberao Pires 28 km SE of S<C4>o Paulo City . To 1200 meters Vulnerable<10>rare ^122 . For more information see ^182 444 Song, Iguassu Falls, Argentina, Juan Mazar Barnett.: 10546 > Male: 1030 > Female: