Yellow-Bellied Seedeater

This small seedeater favours grassy clearings, roadsides and scrubby edges across much of tropical South America, where males with a black hood and yellow underparts sing from low perches such as fence wires or grass stems. It feeds mainly on grass seeds, often clinging to bent seed heads to strip them, and is most conspicuous during the breeding season when males sing persistently. Open, weedy ground near cultivated land or forest edge is a reliable habitat to check.