black-faced grassquit (Tiaris bicolor) Black-faced grassquit (Tiaris bicolor) male, Jamaica
Date 17 December 2014, 08:19:37
Source Own work, from Sharp Photography http://www.sharpphotography.co.uk/
Author Charlesjsharp
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-faced_grassquit_(Tiaris_bicolor)_male.jpg
The black-faced grassquit (Tiaris bicolor) is a small bird which is recognized as a tanager closely related to Darwins finches. It breeds in the West Indies except Cuba, on Tobago but not Trinidad, and along the northern coasts of Colombia and Venezuela.
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Thraupidae
Genus: Tiaris
Species: Tiaris bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766)
Synonyms:
Fringilla zena Linnaeus, 1758
Phonipara zena
