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UrbanDomed nestTiny · 9 g
What the Yellow-faced Grassquit sounds like
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It is a small bird with a conical bill, sharper than that of the related seedeaters. It is 10–10.7 cm (3.9–4.2 in) long and weighs about 8–10 g (0.28–0.35 oz), depending on subspecies. The adult male has an olive-green back, and its face and breast are black apart from a bright yellow throat, supercilia, and lower eyelid spot. The rest of the underparts are greyish olive. The beak and eyes are dark, while the legs are grey. The adult female is slightly smaller on average than the male. It is dull olive-green above and paler grey below, and may have some dark breast smudges. Voice: The yellow-faced grassquit has a weak buzzing trilled ttttt-tee call. The song is a varying series of high thin rapid trills. Given for a prolonged time, it is melodious, yet subdued, and often only heard from a short distance away.
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When to see the Yellow-faced Grassquit
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Yellow-faced Grassquit
The map shades 17 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 Yellow-faced Grassquit
The yellow-faced grassquit is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae and is the only member of the genus Tiaris. It is native to Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
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Easily confused with
Scarlet-rumped TanagerRamphocelus passeriniiThe adult Scarlet-rumped tanager is 16 cm long and weighs 31 g.
Variable SeedeaterSporophila corvinaThe variable seedeater is a small, robust bird with a black conical bill.
Morelet's SeedeaterSporophila morelletiMorelet's seedeater is a passerine bird in the typical seedeater genus Sporophila.
Side by side: Blue-black Grassquit vs Yellow-faced Grassquit · Scarlet-rumped Tanager vs Yellow-faced Grassquit · Variable Seedeater vs Yellow-faced Grassquit
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