Yellow-bellied Seedeater / Geelbuik dikbekje

Yellow-bellied Seedeater (Sporophila nigricollis)

Pictures (click on them to enlarge)
december '13 © Armida Madngisa nature guide	end January '22 © Armida Madngisa nature guide	In Saint-Georges in French Guiana, May 2011. © Johann Tascon

Yellow-bellied Seedeater: Armida Madngisa saw the bird on Kabalebo resort in the west of Suriname in December 2013. Johann Tascon met his bird at st. Georges in the east of French Guiana in May 2011. It is mainly a savanna bird in Suriname but as it, as all seedeaters, is sought for cage bird, it is rare.
Armida Madngisa made a video of a visit of Yellow-bellied Seedeaters to the Kabalebo nature resort in February 2023

Video (click the link or the 'play'-button to see)
Video recording of a Yellow-bellied Seedeater © ;

Distribution

Each small square indicates the observation of at least one (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least four observations on different days and the largest ones ten or more. The color of each square indicates: blue for coastal area, yellow for savanna and red for rainforest.
Not all places in Suriname have been equally often visited by birders, so the distribution of the squares gives an indication of the whereabouts of the birds, but also of the birders. Some places deep in the south have no reported bird observations, by experienced birders, within 60 kilometer.

Abundance in different areas
coastal zone (blue dots on the map) :
northern savannas (yellow dots (in the north)) :
rainforest under 400 m (red dots) :
rainforest above 400 m (red dots) :
Sipaliwini savanna (yellow dots (in the south)) :
A blank is shown if not convincingly reported in the zone. Data interpreted by Arie Spaans, Otte Ottema and Jan Hein Ribot.

Names
Scientific name:	Sporophila nigricollis
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Thraupidae, 56 in Suriname
Dutch:	Geelbuik dikbekje
English:	Yellow-bellied Seedeater
Sranan ('Surinamese'):	Bergi mustas
Guyana:
Papiamento:
Spanish (Venezuela):	Espiguero Vientriamarillo
Portugese (Brazil):	Baiano
Arowak:
Carib:
French:	Sporophile à ventre jaune

Observations through the year	Observations of breeding through the year

The 15 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.	The reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Observations through the year

Observations of breeding through the year

The 15 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced.

The reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest.

Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences.
The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs.

Last update: September 2024 by Jan Hein Ribot. Please mail your comments, photos to: jhribot ( residing at ) gmail (point!) com.
observations can be uploaded to suriname.observation.org or ebird.org ).