Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Cuban Grassquit (Tiaris canorus) - HBW 16, p. 668
French: Cici petit-chanteur
German: Kubagimpelfink
Spanish: Semillero Canoro
Other common names: Melodious Grassquit
Taxonomy: Loxia canora J. F. Gmelin, 1789, Nova Espania; error = Cuba.
Genus may belong in tanager family (Thraupidae); appears to be part of a clade which also includes several Caribbean genera (Euneornis, Loxipasser, Melopyrrha, Loxigilla, Melanospiza), Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), and “Darwin’s finches” (Certhidea, Platyspiza, Pinaroloxias, Camarhynchus, Geospiza). Molecular data suggest that genus as currently constituted is polyphyletic; further research required. Monotypic.
Distribution: Cuba.
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A female foraging on the ground, then joined by a male Locality El Yarey, Jiguaní, Granma Province, Cuba (Monotypic species)
Joe Angseesing 27 March 2007 3 years ago 29 sec 4.5 -
Male, foraging on dry grass and a gravel path Locality El Yarey, Jiguaní, Granma Province, Cuba (Monotypic species)
Joe Angseesing 26 March 2007 3 years ago 31 sec 3.7 -
A male calling and fluffing its plumage. Locality Berlin Zoo, Berlin, Germany (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 21 March 2008 3 years ago 42 sec 3.5 -
A male foraging on the ground and then perched on an Agave Locality El Yarey, Jiguaní, Granma Province, Cuba (Monotypic species)
Joe Angseesing 27 March 2007 3 years ago 36 sec 3.5 -
A male on a grassland, feeding Locality Viñales, Cuba (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 13 August 2004 6 years ago 28 sec 3.4 -
A male perched, calling. Locality Berlin Zoo, Berlin, Germany (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 21 March 2008 3 years ago 23 sec 3
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A male seen in the Orchid Garden, Soroa, Cuba.
Locality Soroa, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba
David Lingard 4 February 2012 4 weeks ago 3.8 -
A male on a perch.
Locality Berlin Zoo, Berlin, Germany (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 21 March 2008 3 years ago 3.8 -
a female on the ground
Locality Frankfurt Zoo, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Stefan Helming 17 April 2009 3 years ago 3.5 -
Male, foraging on the ground
Locality El Yarey, Jiguaní, Granma Province, Cuba (Monotypic species)
Joe Angseesing 27 March 2007 3 years ago 2.4 -
Female, on the ground
Locality El Yarey, Jiguaní, Granma Province, Cuba (Monotypic species)
Joe Angseesing 27 March 2007 3 years ago 2.3
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A male giving calls Locality Wilhelma, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
(Monotypic species)
Michael C 1 January 2008 2 years ago 2
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