General

Yellow-faced Grassquit: This tiny bird has olive upperparts, pale olive underparts, black face, breast, and upper belly with yellow eyebrow and throat patch. Females and juveniles have less yellow and lack black on face and breast.

Range and Habitat

Yellow-faced Grassquit: Native of the Caribbean and Mexico, rarely straggles into south Florida and southern Texas. Prefers open grassy fields, brushy thickets, and shrubs.

Breeding and Nesting

Yellow-faced Grassquit: Two to four pale blue eggs flecked with gray and brown are laid in a nest of sticks and twigs lined with fine grass and hair in tall grasses or low in shrubbery. Female incubates eggs for about 12 days.

Foraging and Feeding

Yellow-faced Grassquit: Eats mostly seeds found by scratching in ground. Also eats berries, small fruits, and insects.

Readily Eats

Commercial Mixed Bird Seed

Vocalization

Yellow-faced Grassquit: Song is a buzzing insect like trill.