---
title: "Black-faced Grassquit"
description: "Melanospiza bicolor — Birds. The black-faced grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a small bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/black-faced-grassquit
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black-faced Grassquit

> Melanospiza bicolor — Birds. The black-faced grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a small bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies.

- Scientific name: *Melanospiza bicolor*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 4053
- iNaturalist taxon: [979800](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/979800)

## Names

- en: Black-faced Grassquit
- de: Schwarzgesichtchen
- es: Gorrión negro
- fr: Cici verdinère

## Countries with the most observations

PR (679), CO (646), MQ (426), BS (173), CW (164), VE (160), GP (155), AW (144), JM (131), US (97), VI (93), BB (74)

## Summary

The black-faced grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a small bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in the West Indies except Cuba Colombia, Venezuela and islands off its coast, and on islands in the western Caribbean Sea.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-faced_grassquit

## Photo

![Black-faced Grassquit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-faced-grassquit/medium.jpg)

Photo: Henggang Cui · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103538411

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-faced-grassquit?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).