Black-faced Grassquit

Melanospiza bicolor - Sporophile cici Cici verdinère

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Passeriformes

  • Family
    :

    Thraupidés

  • Genus
    :

    Melanospiza

  • Species
    :

    bicolor

Descriptor

Linnaeus, 1766

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 12 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 7 à 13 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Sporophile cici
♀ adult
Sporophile cici

Black-faced Grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a species of bird in the Thraupidae family.

Subspecific information 8 subspecies

  • Melanospiza bicolor bicolor (Bahama Is., islands off n Cuba)
  • Melanospiza bicolor marchii (Jamaica and Hispaniola)
  • Melanospiza bicolor omissa ()
  • Melanospiza bicolor huilae (c Colombia)
  • Melanospiza bicolor grandior (San Andrés Arch.. e of Nicaragua.)
  • Melanospiza bicolor johnstonei (La Blanquilla and Los Hermanos. off n Venezuela.)
  • Melanospiza bicolor sharpei (Netherlands Antilles)
  • Melanospiza bicolor tortugensis (La Tortuga. off n Venezuela.)

Foreign names

  • Sporophile cici,
  • Semillero bicolor,
  • papa-capim-bicolor,
  • Jamaikagimpeltangare,
  • feketeképű kölespinty,
  • Maskergrondvink,
  • Erbero faccianera,
  • sisitangara,
  • Skifergresspurv,
  • ostrovčan dvojfarebný,
  • kubánka dvoubarvá,
  • Jamaicafinke,
  • mustanaamasirkkunen,
  • menjagrà caranegre,
  • ziębołuszcz ciemnolicy,
  • melnā stērstiņa,
  • Чернолицый тиарис,
  • ニショクコメワリ,
  • 黑脸草雀,
  • 黑臉離草雀,

Voice song and cries

Sporophile cici
♂ adult

Habitat

Sporophile cici
♂ adult

Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Dry ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Plantations, Rural Gardens, Urban Areas, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

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published: - Updated: 02-02-2022
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