10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRASSQUIT»
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Birds of the West Indies
CUBAN GRASSQUIT Tiaris canora 11.5cm (4.5in). Small, with olive upperparts.
Conspicuous yellow crescent divides face and breast. Forms flocks. male: Black
face and breast. female: Yellow less marked; face dark reddish-brown. voice: ...
Herbert A. Raffaele, James Wiley, Orlando H. Garrido, 2010
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The Birds of South America: Volume 1: The Oscine Passerines
Male Blue- black Grassquit is a glossier, bluer black than this species; even imma
- tures are never as dull or sooty as this species (instead they are mottled
brownish). Male Uniform Finch is slightly larger but with proportionately smaller
bill and ...
3
Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Similar species: Female and immature are drabber than theirYellow-faced
Grassquit counterparts and lack the faint yellowish facial markings. Male is much
smaller than immature Greater Antillean Bullfinch which can also combine black
and ...
Steven Latta, Christopher Rimmer, Allan Keith, 2010
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On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While Others ...
wonderfully named dull-coloured grassquit, because this is the bird with the
closest genetic code to the Galapagos finches. It's a good candidate for the
original colonist of an underexploited double archipelago: it's not a fussy eater,
happy to ...
5
Nesting Birds of a Tropical Frontier: The Lower Rio Grande ...
Other emberizids A big surprise of the summer of 2002 was the first nesting
attempt of a Yellow-faced Grassquit (Tiaris olivaceus) in the United States (Brush
2003). A common neotropical resident species ranging from northeastern Mexico
...
6
A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies
Also Mexico to north-western South America. Introduced (1963) on New
Providence. Black-faced Grassquit Tiaris bicolor page 129 Fig. 180 Black-faced
Grassquit (Jamaica and Hispaniola) Local names: Parson Bird; Parson Sparrow;
Sin Bird; ...
James Bond, Roger Tory Peterson, 1999
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CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses, Second Edition
Body. masses. of. world. Birds. (continued). common name Sex n mean S.D. min
max Season location Source # Catamenia homochroa Paramo.Seedeater M 3
12.2 Ecuador;.Bolivia 953,.963 Tiaris obscurus Dull-colored. Grassquit U 29 11.2
...
John B. Dunning, Jr., 2007
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Articles on Thraupidae, Including: Tanager, Blue-Black ...
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A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Jamaica
Black-faced. Grassquit. Tiaris. bicolor. Yellow-shouldered Grassquit Loxipasser
anoxanthus Although this bird is feeding young,. Adult male breeding. Note black
on throat and belly. Rocklands, May. Adult male. This is a rather pale individual.
Ann Haynes-Sutton, Audrey Downer, Robert Sutton, 2009
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A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
BLACK-FACED GRASSQUIT Tiaris bicolor Pl. 56, Map 1434 Identification: 4" (
10.2cm). Bill dusky above, dull yellow below. <J : dull olive above; fore- crown,
sides of head, throat, and breast sooty black shading to gray on belly; flanks
tinged ...
Steven L. Hilty, Bill Brown, 1986
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRASSQUIT»
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Exotic park is up for sale
... strawtailed whydah (Vidua fischeri), a pair of Princess of Wales parakeets (Polytelis alexandrae) and Cuban grassquit (Tiaris canorus). «Cage & Aviary Birds, Jun 15»
Sexy male birds 'make worse dads'
The blue-black grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) is a small bird in the tanager family Thraupidae, and is found across Central and South America. «BBC News, Mar 15»
Bad news - sexy men actually make worse Dads
'We need more studies to clarify which is more important for grassquit mothers when deciding how much to invest in their chicks: the quality of ... «Metro, Mar 15»
Cuba Crush revisited: Princeton area residents visiting Cuba for bird …
We shuffled onto our bus before sunrise to catch an early morning Cuban grassquit or Zapata wren and staggered to bed at 10 p.m. after a ... «NJ.com, Mar 15»
Cuban birds blow the whistle on would-be smuggler
The Cuban Grassquit is a small bird with a short beak, with brown and olive green plumage, with black and yellow around the face and throat. «eNCA, May 14»
Would-be smuggler hides Cuban birds inside his trousers: press
The Cuban Grassquit is a small bird with a short beak, with brown and olive green plumage, with black and yellow around the face and throat. «Tuoitrenews, May 14»
A look at some of Cayman's birds
The Grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night. The adult male has grayish olive green ... «Caymanian Compass, Sep 12»
Last two Audubon Cuba trips for 2012 - bird watching in Cuba
Encounter endemic species such as the Cuban Tody, Cuban Grassquit, and Cuban Crow. Explore the colonial jewel of Trinidad and learn ... «Havana Journal, Aug 12»
My Husband and Other Animals — Everything's in the name
... and plain old Tyrant), the Titmouse, Kinglet, Morepork, Wandering Tattler, Bananaquit (besides Orangequit and Grassquit), Monotonous Lark, ... «The Hindu, May 11»
Did Darwin's Finches Do Math?
The researchers found that the six Geospiza finches and their ancestor the Black-faced Grassquit matched up with scaling transformations ... «Science Now, Feb 10»
