General

White-collared Seedeater: Small finch with short, thick curved bill, yellow-gray overall with black head, wings, and tail and gray back. Wings show two white bars. Female is duller with buff underparts and olive-brown to red-brown upperparts, wings, and tail.

Range and Habitat

White-collared Seedeater: Native of Mexico and Central America with a small nesting range in southern Texas.

Breeding and Nesting

White-collared Seedeater: Two to four pale blue to gray eggs with brown marks at larger end are laid in a nest of sticks, plant stems and grass lined with hair three to five feet above the ground in small trees or bushes. Eggs are incubated for 13 days by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

White-collared Seedeater: Eats seeds and insects foraged from ground.

Readily Eats

Millet, Commercial Mixed Bird Seed

Vocalization

White-collared Seedeater: High pitched series of notes follwed by a series of low notes.

Similar Species

White-collared Seedeater: Has a short conical bill that distinguishes it from sparrows and finches of similar size.