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ID help again
Posted by Nai
over 5 years ago
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Hi, does anyone know what this is? It popped up on a social media post by birders in Cuba who were trying to identify it. Hopefully I uploaded the link correctly.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/148566858@N06/48733303863/in/dateposted-public/
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Looks like a juvenile Cuban Grassquit but a lot darker than the birds I'm used to seeing. The bird is also a Cuba endemic to it matches the location, here is a link with ID for it and how it would normally look: https://ebird.org/species/cubgra
Thank you!
Or a yellow faced grassquit?
The reason it's not a Yellow-faced Grassquit can be seen in the shape of the bill, Cuban Grassquit has a thicker bill and you can also see the shaded area of the face in the photo that is a field mark for Cuban Grassquit, in the Yellow-faced Grassquit there would be marking of a yellow brow and throat if it was close to be an adult male while if it was a female it would have a plumage similar to a very dull female Painted Bunting with an eye-ring.
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