Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) - HBW 16, p. 644
French: Jacarini noir
German: Jacariniammer
Spanish: Semillero Volatinero
Other common names: Blue-black Seedeater
Taxonomy: Tanagra jacarina Linnaeus, 1766, north-eastern Brazil.
Genus sometimes subsumed in Geospiza, but the two appear entirely unrelated. Recent molecular-genetic data indicate that present genus belongs in the tanager family (Thraupidae) and is basal to a clade that includes Lanio, Tachyphonus and Ramphocelus, among others. Proposed race atronitens (described from Campeche, in SE Mexico) is synonymized with splendens. Three subspecies generally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- splendens (Vieillot, 1817) - Mexico (S from S Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, S Tamaulipas and E San Luis Potosí) and Belize S through most of Central America to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and the Amazon Basin; also Trinidad, Tobago and Grenada.
- peruviensis (Peale, 1848) - W Ecuador, W Peru and NW Chile.
- jacarina (Linnaeus, 1766) - S & E Brazil (S from Mato Grosso and Maranhão) S to SE Peru, E Bolivia, Paraguay and N Argentina (S to Mendoza, Córdoba and N Buenos Aires).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male displaying Locality Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (ssp jacarina)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 5 years ago 27 sec 4.9 -
A male going up on a bush and displaying from the top Locality Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil (ssp jacarina)
Josep del Hoyo 8 January 2005 5 years ago 31 sec 4.4 -
A male displaying, with its typical jumps Locality Campeche State, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (Southern)
Juan Sanabria 1 August 2009 2 years ago 33 sec 4.2 -
A male perched and displaying on a thin branch Locality Unare Lagoon, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela (ssp splendens)
DAVID ASCANIO 31 August 2003 4 years ago 10 sec 4.2 -
A juvenile male perched in a bush, changing perch. Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp jacarina)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 5 weeks ago 21 sec 4 -
A close view of a snoozing bird on a twig. Locality Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname (ssp splendens)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 21 May 2011 33 weeks ago 55 sec 4
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Photographed on levee at marsh reserve
Locality Laguna de Sonso Natural Reserve, Buga, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia
Peter Franze 18 August 2010 24 weeks ago 4.2 -
dorsal view of a female
Locality Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Stephen Romany 1 July 2011 47 weeks ago 4 -
A male perched on a wire fence.
Locality Morazán, Pérez Zeledón, San José Province, Costa Rica
manuel retana 16 April 2010 2 years ago 4 -
female bird perched on a branch
Locality El Olivar Park, San Isidro, Lima Department, Peru
Nature Expeditions Peru 1 August 2007 2 years ago 4 -
singing male
Locality Aripo Livestock Station, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Stanisław Czyz 19 February 2012 11 weeks ago 3.8 -
When forest is cut, I come
Locality Punta Leona, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
Guy Poisson 1 December 2008 1 year ago 3.8
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A male singing on the top of a shrub giving short flights and returnes to its perch (one sound for each flight) Locality San Miguel District, Lima City, Peru
(ssp peruviensis)
rodolfinchi10 17 May 2009 2 years ago 4 -
Display calls Locality Emas National Park, Goiás State, Brazil
Bradley Davis 4 March 2008 2 years ago 4
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