Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus)

Other Scientific Names
Tiaris olivacea [BirdLife International (2004)], Tiaris olivacea [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Tiaris olivacea [Stotz et al. (1996)]

Other Names (World)
Yellow-faced Grassquit, Mexican Grassquit

Family
Thraupidae (Tanagers)

Size
10 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1766)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry grassland, subtropical and tropical moist shrubland. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (B), Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, 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 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (77)...)

Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) [XC567438]
by Brosis Rodriguez from Savegre Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica (song)

Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) [XC370602]
by Dan Lane from Reserva Natural Privada Chajbaoc, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala (call, song)

Subspecies
Genus may belong in tanager family (Thraupidae). Appears to be part of a clade which also includes several Caribbean genera (Euneornis, Loxipasser, Melopyrrha, Loxigilla, Melanospiza), Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), and "Darwin's finches" (Certhidea, Platyspiza, Pinaroloxias, Camarhynchus, Geospiza). Molecular data suggest that genus as currently constituted is polyphyletic. Further research is required.

Proposed subspecies coryi (described from Cayman Brac, in Cayman Is) is synonymized with nominate.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

pusillus Swainson, 1827 - Atlantic slope of Mexico southern locally through Central America to Colombia (west of eastern Andes, excluding Santa Marta region) and north-western and eastern Ecuador, and western Venezuela (south-western M�rida and T�chira).
intermedius (Ridgway, 1885) - Cozumel I (off Quintana Roo), in eastern Mexico.
ravidus Wetmore, 1957 - Coiba I (off southern Veraguas), in western Panama.
olivaceus (Linnaeus, 1766) - Cuba, I of Pines, Cayman Is, Jamaica and Hispaniola.
bryanti (Ridgway, 1898) - Puerto Rico and neighbouring islands.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) - 10 files

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