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Black-faced Grassquit
Melanospiza bicolor
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About the Black-faced Grassquit
The black-faced grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a small bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in the West Indies except Cuba Colombia, Venezuela and islands off its coast, and on islands in the western Caribbean Sea.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Melanospiza bicolor
- Family
- Tanagers and Allies
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the tanagers and allies family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Azure-rumped Tanager Poecilostreptus cabanisi
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola
- Black-headed Saltator Saltator atriceps
- Black-throated Shrike-Tanager Lanio aurantius
- Blue Dacnis Dacnis cayana
- Blue-black Grassquit Volatinia jacarina
- Blue-gray Tanager Thraupis episcopus
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus
- Chestnut-throated Seedeater Sporophila telasco
- Cinnamon-bellied Flowerpiercer Diglossa baritula
- Cinnamon-bellied Saltator Saltator grandis
- Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater Sporophila torqueola
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