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UrbanCup nestTiny · 10 g
What the Blue-black Grassquit sounds like
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Adult blue-black grassquits are 10.2 cm (4.0 in) long and weigh 9.3 g (0.33 oz). They have a slender conical black bill. The male is glossy blue-black, with a black tail and wings; the white inner underwing is visible in flight or display. Female and immature birds have brown upperparts and dark-streaked buff underparts.
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When to see the Blue-black Grassquit
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Blue-black Grassquit
The map shades 25 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.
About the Blue-black Grassquit
The blue-black grassquit is a small Neotropical bird in the tanager family, Thraupidae. It is the only member of the genus Volatinia. It is a common and widespread bird that breeds from southern Mexico through Central America, and South America as far as northern Chile, Argentina, and Paraguay, and in Trinidad and Tobago. A male was also observed in Graham County, Arizona, on July 15 and July 17, 2023.
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Easily confused with
Sayaca TanagerThraupis sayacaThe sayaca tanager is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers.
Buff-throated SaltatorSaltator maximusThe buff-throated saltator is a seed-eating bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.
Yellow-faced GrassquitTiaris olivaceusIt is a small bird with a conical bill, sharper than that of the related seedeaters.
Side by side: Blue-black Grassquit vs Yellow-faced Grassquit
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