Yellow-faced Grassquit

Tiaris olivaceaOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Codes: Common Name: YFGR Scientific Name: TIAOLI ITIS Taxonomic No.: 179163

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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

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

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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