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 LC    Blue-black Grassquit* Id (Atlas):
    Volatinia jacarina

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
Blue-black Grassquit, Blue-black Seedeater

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry and moist shrubland, subtropical and tropical seasonally wet / flooded grassland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)
Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000,000 - 99,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (143)...)

 
Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) [XC572967]
     by Garry Bakker from Santa Rita do Novo Destino, Goi\u00e1s, Ch\u00e1cara Jayrson, Brazil (call, hatchling or nestling)

 
Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) [XC7456]
     by Fernando Jacobs from S\u00edtio Pitombeiras, Feira Nova, Pernambuco, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Geospiza, but the two appear entirely unrelated. Recent molecular-genetic data indicate that present genus belongs in the tanager family (Thraupidae) and is basal to a clade that includes Lanio, Tachyphonus and Ramphocelus, among others.

Proposed subspecies atronitens (described from Campeche, in south-eastern Mexico) is synonymized with splendens.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • splendens (Vieillot, 1817)   -  Mexico (southern from southern Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, southern Tamaulipas and eastern San Luis Potosí­) and Belize south through most of Central America to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and the Amazon Basin. Also Trinidad, Tobago and Grenada.
  • peruviensis (Peale, 1849)   -  Western Ecuador, western Peru and north-western Chile.
  • jacarina (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  Southern and eastern Brazil (southern from Mato Grosso and Maranhío) south to south-eastern Peru, eastern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina (south to Mendoza, Córdoba and northern Buenos Aires).



References
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Files:
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