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Blue-black Grassquit (Male)

Volatinia jacarina

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Description:

Likes to eat grass seeds, when it goes on the grass sometimes the grass bends and down it goes with it eating as if nothing happened, bluest little bird I have ever seen, even the beak is blue.

Species ID Suggestions

Blue-black Grassquit (Male)

Volatinia jacarina

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FaredinAliyevski
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Comments (3)
FaredinAliyevski
It's a perfect bird with both color and behavior. And you have got some nice shots. You are lucky to be living in such a diverse ecosystem with so many different bird species.
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Thank you so much for the ID, FaredinAliyevski. This small bird it is such a cutie, happy and energeric, when it does the "Jumping Jack" dance I am sure, it is at least 3 feet high and it lands in the same spot time and time again!!

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Birds of the World
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Paso Pacifico Survey
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Birds of Panama and Costa Rica
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Life in Costa Rica
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PublishedAugust 15, 2013

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