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Where does the Black-faced Grassquit live?

Melanospiza bicolor has 203,550 records in 32 countries and territories, from 1859 to 2026. Most records come from Puerto Rico.

Black-faced Grassquit
Black-faced Grassquit — Félix Uribe from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia / CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesThraupidaeMelanospiza

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Puerto Rico 55,658
Venezuela 33,452
Colombia 20,441
Guadeloupe 17,452
Bahamas 9,395
Aruba 8,966
Curaçao 7,481
Bonaire 5,971
Jamaica 5,387
Grenada 4,901
Barbados 4,785
US Virgin Islands 4,122
Trinidad & Tobago 3,343
Saint Lucia 2,518
Martinique 2,270
St Vincent & the Grenadines 2,207
Antigua & Barbuda 2,149
Dominica 1,651
Anguilla 1,630
Dominican Republic 1,420
Haiti 1,400
Montserrat 1,393
United States 1,384
Sint Maarten 1,373
Saint Martin 998
St Kitts & Nevis 912
British Virgin Islands 542
Turks and Caicos Islands 252
Saint Barthélemy 61
Cuba 19
ZZ 16
DR Congo 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.