Yellow-faced grassquit

The Yellow-faced Grassquit is a passerine bird from the Central American tropics and surrounding regions. It was formerly alled with the American sparrows and placed in the Emberizidae; actually, however, it is one of the tholospizan finches which are specialized tanagers . As such, it is closely related to the famous Darwin's finches.

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The Yellow-faced grassquit is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) in Laredo, Texas, in a "reedy cane" area near the intersection of Las Palma Trail and Zacate Creek. The drab bird, similar in appearance to the immature female portrayed on Plate 62 of Howell and Webb's Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America), is of the subspecies, T. o. pusilla. More

* Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) * Black-faced Grassquit (Tiaris bicolor) Grassquits of other genera - * Yellow-shouldered Grassquit (Loxipasser anoxanthus) * Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) Stub icon This article about a tanager is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v • d • e Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia. More

The Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) is a passerine bird from the Central American tropics and surrounding regions. It was formerly alled with the American sparrows and placed in the Emberizidae; actually, however, it is one of the tholospizan "finches" which are specialized tanagers (Thraupidae). As such, it is closely related to the famous Darwin's finches. More

The Yellow-faced Grassquit has a fairly large range reaching up to generally 940,000 square kilometers. This bird can be found much of the Caribbean as well as parts of North, South and Central America including Bahama, Belize, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States, and Venezuela. More

Yellow-faced Grassquit, an attractive bird, pleasantly common throughout Cuba. photo More

first Yellow-faced Grassquit, TIARIS OLIVACEA, I’ve seen on Hacienda Chichen’s grounds flitted from the lawn grass onto a spiny-tipped blade of an ornamental agave, as seen at . Yellow-faced Grassquits, despite seldom coming onto the grounds, are fairly common in the Yucatán in weeds along roadsides and in abandoned fields. This bird must have been just wandering through. He stayed four or five days, then drifted on. More

Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivacea), Costa Rica - This Web-Site is designed and owned by Discovery Travel World, S.A., P.O. Box 497- 6150, Santa Ana, San Jos More

Yellow-faced Grassquit - Tiaris olivaceus = Following image was taken in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. All rights reserved. Yellow-faced Grassquit - Tiaris olivaceus Image # 57272: Yellow-faced Grassquit - 2/6/08 - Nikkor VR 200-400mm f/4 lens with Nikon D200. More

Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivacea) photo Cocl More

Yellow-faced Grassquit: First recorded sighting in the United States - Photo by Robert De Graaf (24 January, 1990) Santa Ana NWR, Hidalgo County, TX. * Yellow-Faced Grassquit: Also, Eco Pond, Everglades National Park, Florida - February 2, 2001. * Yellow-faced Grassquit Data Copyright 2004 Finchworld Inc. More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Emberizidae
Genus : Tiaris
Species : olivaceus
Authority : (Linnaeus, 1766)