Capuchino seedeater illustration (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Capuchino seedeater illustration

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Capuchino seedeaters are finch-like birds that live in South America. Over the last 50,000 generations, they've split into different species with distinct colorations, though there were no physical or genetic barriers to their interbreeding. This is an illustration of one species of southern capuchino seedeater, Sporophila hypoxantha

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Illustration: Ben Wigler/CSHL

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