Birds of Ecuador

    PASSERIFORMES: Thraupidae (Tanagers & Allies)  
Genus: Volatinia (1 species, 1 worldwide)



Blue-black Grassquit
Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina peruviensis) Male
Lima, Peru
  A coastal race with brown colors found from southwest Ecuador to northwest Chile.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Blue-black Grassquit
Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina splendens) Male
Bahia Solano, Choco, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Blue-black Grassquit
Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina splendens) Female
Bahia Solano, Choco, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Male feeding young, or courtship feeding.
Western peruviensis race


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Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba