Capuchino Seedeater Diversity

Final plate showing diversity among South American Capuchino Seedeater species to accompany paper by Dr. Leo Campagna published in Plos One . The recent Capuchino Seedeater biological radiation from the genus Sporophila, is a highly diversified group that evolved during the Pleistocene in Neotropical grasslands. It was really fun painting the different color combinations.
 

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