About the Cuban Grassquit
The Cuban grassquit (Phonipara canora) is a small bird in the tanager family Thraupidae. It is endemic to Cuba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Phonipara canora
- 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-faced Grassquit Melanospiza bicolor
- 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
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