Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)
Sooty Grassquit (Tiaris fuliginosus) - HBW 16, p. 670
French: Cici fuligineux
German: Schwarzbrust-Gimpelfink
Spanish: Semillero Fuliginoso
Taxonomy: Fringilla fuliginosa Wied, 1830, Camamú, Bahia, Brazil.
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. Birds from Sierra de Perijá (W Venezuela) described as race zuliae and birds from Trinidad as fumosus.. View all taxonomy...
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. Birds from Sierra de Perijá (W Venezuela) described as race zuliae and birds from Trinidad as fumosus, but both considered undiagnosable, as mensural and plumage characteristics variable throughout range of species. Monotypic.
Distribution: W & N Venezuela (Sierra de Perijá, N end of E slope of Andes, and coastal mountains from E Falcón and Carabobo E to Sucre; also Cerro Roraima, in E Bolívar); Trinidad; S Guyana; and E Brazil (Maranhão and Ceará to NE Goiás and Piauí; Pernambuco S to São Paulo) and extreme NE Argentina (Misiones).
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A first year male feeding on seeds of Takuarusu Locality Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina (Monotypic species)
Nacho Areta 21 November 2007 4 years ago 43 sec 4.3 -
A bird calling from a high branch Locality Arena Forest, Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus Province, Cuba (Monotypic species)
DAVID ASCANIO 28 February 2007 5 years ago 12 sec 3.3 -
A first year male feeding a recently fledged juvenile Locality Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina (Monotypic species)
Nacho Areta 21 November 2007 4 years ago 58 sec 2.9 -
A bird on the top of a tree Locality Arena Forest, Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus Province, Cuba (Monotypic species)
DAVID ASCANIO 28 February 2007 5 years ago 9 sec 2.9 -
A first year male feeding on seeds and a recently fledged juvenile calling and begging for food Locality Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina (Monotypic species)
Nacho Areta 21 November 2007 4 years ago 31 sec 2.7 -
A male eating seeds from a dead bamboo stand near Iguazu, Argentina. Locality Misiones Province, Argentina
German Pugnali 23 December 2007 4 years ago 48 sec 2.7
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Male perched in the canopy in Paramin hills.
Locality Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
fayardmohammed 14 April 2012 1 year ago 4 -
A young male feeding on a Bamboo
Locality Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina
Kini Roesler 23 August 2007 3 years ago 1.3
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Fledgling begging for food Locality Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province, Argentina
Nacho Areta 3 years ago 4 -
Flowering bamboo. Locality Camacan, Bahia State, Brazil
(Monotypic species)
Ciro Albano 5 October 2009 3 years ago 3
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