The adult male is bluish grey with a thick, bright yellow bill. This seedeater breeds in upland grasslands of southern Brazil and moves north to the Cerrado for winter.
The adult male is bluish grey and has a robust, bright yellow bill.
It breeds in upland grasslands of southern Brazil. A figure caption in the breeding study describes a male using its feet to grasp seeds of purple speargrass.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.