🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Blue-black Grassquit live?

Volatinia jacarina has 540,131 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Colombia.

Blue-black Grassquit
Blue-black Grassquit β€” Dario Sanches / CC BY-SA 2.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesThraupidaeVolatinia

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
Colombia 99,941
Brazil 95,233
Costa Rica 72,338
Mexico 51,936
Belize 45,245
Panama 32,635
Peru 26,353
Ecuador 22,945
Honduras 18,160
Venezuela 16,564
Guatemala 11,902
Trinidad & Tobago 10,855
Argentina 9,132
Nicaragua 5,904
Paraguay 4,789
El Salvador 3,977
Bolivia 3,715
Guyana 2,705
French Guiana 2,088
Suriname 1,526
Chile 1,071
Uruguay 661
Grenada 321
United States 95
CuraΓ§ao 27
Bonaire 7
Greece 2
Saint Lucia 1
Netherlands 1
Puerto Rico 1

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