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Yellow-faced Grassquit

Tiaris olivaceaOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Codes: Common Name: YFGR Scientific Name: TIAOLI ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179163
Least Concern
 
Yellow-faced Grassquit
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Overview

Yellow-faced Grassquit: Tiny bird with olive upperparts, pale olive underparts, black face, breast, and upper belly, yellow eyebrow and throat patch. Found in open fields, brushy thickets, and shrubs. Forages on ground. Weak fluttering flight, alternates rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.

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.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body


Listen to Call

Voice Text

"siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir"

Interesting Facts

 A group of sparrows has many collective nouns, including a "crew", "flutter", "meinie", "quarrel", and "ubiquity" of sparrows.


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Author

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Range Map for Yellow-faced Grassquit

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Family Buntings, Finches, Sparrows (Emberizidae)_blue
Species Tiaris olivacea
Length4 - 4.5 Inches
Wingspan6.25 Inches

Yellow-faced Grassquit

Yellow-faced Grassquit: Tiny bird with olive upperparts, pale olive underparts, black face, breast, and upper belly, yellow eyebrow and throat patch. Found in open fields, brushy thickets, and shrubs. Forages on ground. Weak fluttering flight, alternates rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.

● Song: "siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir"

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

● Breeding & 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.

● Similar species:

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight of short duration, with series of rapid wing beats followed by wings pulled in to sides, repeated.
Yellow-faced Grassquit Body Illustration
● Range & 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.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationCommon in habitat, Rare in North America
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.3 Ounces
Perching-like BodyX
UnderpartsX
Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.
UpperpartsX
Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.
BellyX
The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.
BreastX
The upper front part of a bird.
EyebrowX
Also called the supercilicum or superciliary it is the arch of feathers over each eye.
FaceX
The front part of the head consisting of the bill, eyes, cheeks and chin.
4 and 6 letter alpha codesX

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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ITIS CodesX

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990�s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html. You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.

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Parts of a Standing birdX
Head Feathers and MarkingsX
Parts of a Flying birdX