Thick-billed seedeater
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Crithagra burtoni

The thick-billed seedeater (Crithagra burtoni ) is a species of finch in the family Fringillidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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The thick-billed seedeater was formerly placed in the genus Serinus but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found that the genus was polyphyletic. The genus was therefore split and a number of species including the thick-billed seedeater were moved to the resurrected genus Crithagra.

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References

1. Thick-billed seedeater Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick-billed_seedeater
2. Thick-billed seedeater on The IUCN Red List site - https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22720267/94662953
3. Xeno-canto bird call - https://xeno-canto.org/194587

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