Tanagers & Allies

Black-faced Grassquit

Melanospiza bicolor

The Black-faced Grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a 9.8 g scrub bird that eats mostly seeds. It stays put all year.

Family

Tanagers & Allies

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

9.8 g

Habitat

Shrubland

Diet

Plants and seeds

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

29

Recorded in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, GP, Bahamas, AW, Curaçao, BQ, Jamaica, Grenada, Barbados, VI, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, MQ, St. Vin. and Gren., Antigua and Barb., Dominica, AI, Dominican Rep., Haiti, MS, United States, SX, MF, KN, VG, TC, ZZ.

Where to see it: Sainte-Rose - Beauvallon (Guadeloupe); Jolly Hill (private) (United States Virgin Islands); HT-SE PNLV Kay Jim 18.323-72.263 (Haiti); Botanical Gardens, Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines); Pointe d'Or (Guadeloupe).

Photo: (c) Wes Gapp, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist