Habitat: The Slate-colored seedeater will prefer second-growth woodland and forest borders areas in humid areas in the lowlands. Distribution: This species has been reported from southern Mexico; northern Honduras; Costa Rica to western Ecuador; northern Bolivia and northern Brazil, Natural History Notes: This seedeater bird is usually found alone or in pairs and rarely seen with other seedeater species. It will usually stay in trees near the ground but sometimes high in trees. Conservation status according to IUCN 2008 Red list: Least Concern (LC). Characteristics: This species has a total length of 4.25 inches (measured from tip of bill to end of tail). This bird has a yellow bill for the male and a gray bill for the female. The male has plumage mostly gray with a white patch on the sides of the neck. The wings and the tail are black, but the wings show a white speculum and one white wing bar. Half of the breast and the belly are also white. The female will have an olive brown coloration above with a pale brown coloration on the part below. The plumage is more beige on the half of the belly than the male.