Tanagers & Allies

Sooty Grassquit

Asemospiza fuliginosa

The Sooty Grassquit (Asemospiza fuliginosa) is a 13 g scrub bird that eats mostly seeds. Some populations migrate.

Family

Tanagers & Allies

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

13 g

Habitat

Shrubland

Diet

Plants and seeds

Migration

Partial migrant

Countries recorded

6

Recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Argentina, Paraguay.

Where to see it: Blanchisseuse Road (Trinidad and Tobago); Floresta Estadual Edmundo Navarro de Andrade (Brazil); Via Escuque-La Palma—Sector Campo Alegre y Areas Circunvecinas (Venezuela); Asa Wright Nature Center (Trinidad and Tobago); Caroni Swamp (Trinidad and Tobago).

Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist