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Blue-black Grassquit
Volatinia jacarina · Family Thraupidae
Volatinia jacarina
Family Thraupidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Thraupidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 545,059
- Countries and territories with records
- 33
About this species
This species has 545,059 occurrence records from 33 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (18.4%), Brazil (17.9%), Costa Rica (13.3%), Mexico (9.6%) and Belize (8.3%); together they account for 67.5% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.38% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Volatinia jacarina combines the genus name Volatinia with the species epithet jacarina. It is the only species of the genus Volatinia in the Warbla app catalog.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 370 species of the family Thraupidae. This species ranks 5th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Thraupis episcopus. Its record count is 10.5 times the family average (51,963). The family Thraupidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.