Sooty Grassquit

It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

The Sooty Grassquit is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

* Sooty Grassquit (Tiaris fuliginosus) * Dull-coloured Grassquit (Tiaris obscurus) * Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) * Black-faced Grassquit (Tiaris bicolor) Grassquits of other genera - * Yellow-shouldered Grassquit (Loxipasser anoxanthus) * Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) Stub icon This article about a tanager is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. More

The Sooty Grassquit (Tiaris fuliginosus) is a small bird formerly placed with the Emberizidae. It is now recognized as a tanager closely related to Darwins finches. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest. More

populations ofthe Sooty Grassquit that occur north, east and south of the Amazon Basin. The three currently recognized subspecies are not separable based on the male plumage characters used to describe them. South American subspecies of the primarily West Indian Blackfaced Grassquit (T. bicolor) occur syntopically with T. obscura and T. fuliginosa in northern South America. The similarity of these three species has lead to confusion regarding their South American distributions, and many specimens have been incorrectly identified. More

Sooty Grassquit (Tiaris fuliginosa) = * Least Concern * List * Thumbs * All * Videos * Photos * Sounds Videos 6 videos * Video preview image A first year male feeding on seeds of Takuarusu More

Sooty Grassquit Tiaris fuliginosa = Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil - Jul, 2002 More

Sooty Grassquit Tiaris fuliginosa = Described by: Wied (1830) Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors Photographs Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil - Jul, 2002 More

SOOTY GRASSQUIT Tiaris fuliginosus Sooty Grassquit is a rare bird, and the individual in the photograph is one of very few records of the species in Paraguay. More

Sooty Grassquit (Tiaris fuliginosa) Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil July 2002 by Arthur Grosset's Birds Bates, J.M., 1997. Distribution and geographic variation in three South American grassquits (Emberizinae, Tiaris). Ornithological Monographs 48. 91-110. Copyright 2005 Finchworld, Inc. More

Sooty Grassquit (Tiaris fuliginosus) by Glauco Alves Pereira. More

species overview :: Sooty Grassquit (Tiaris fuliginosus) = Nr. More

* Sooty Grassquit, Tiaris fuliginosus * Dull-colored Grassquit, Tiaris obscurus * Yellow-faced Grassquit, Tiaris olivaceus * Black-faced Grassquit, Tiaris bicolor However, these might not be monophyletic relatives, and warrant the splitting off of some species or merging this genus in another. More