Black-faced Grassquit is a small tanager, very dark
olive-gray with black head, breast, bill, legs
and feet. Very common in the West Indies and feeds mainly on seeds, especially
of grasses and weeds. The flight is weak, bouncy and fluttering. Alternates
rapid wing beats with pulling wings to body.
The Grassquit
were long considered sparrows, but recent molecular studies have placed them in
the tanagers, closely related to Darwin’s “finches”. Casual visitor to South
Florida.
Photographed at Rockland’s Bird
Sanctuary, Jamaica
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