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Yellow-faced Grassquit
Tiaris olivaceus · Family Thraupidae
Tiaris olivaceus
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 363,119
- Countries and territories with records
- 27
About this species
This species has 363,119 occurrence records from 27 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Costa Rica (30.2%), Colombia (21.7%), Panama (9.8%), Mexico (7.3%) and Cuba (6.4%); together they account for 75.4% of the total. In Costa Rica, this species accounts for 0.42% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tiaris olivaceus combines the genus name Tiaris with the species epithet olivaceus. It is the only species of the genus Tiaris in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 8th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 7 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.