ML143841031
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Observation details
Two males (with different amounts of black on the lower belly) present for about two weeks, first reported to eBird on 18 Feb 2019 by Carl Goodrich. According to staff of the bird rehab center at the park, three male Yellow-faced Grassquits were confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from somebody in the Miami area, who was found to have been possessing these birds illegally. Eventually the birds were transported to the rehab center at Indigenous Park and kept captive onsite for about three weeks before being released. The black breasts and gray bellies show that these are of the West Indian subspecies _olivaceus_. Neither is banded. I'm surprised that eBird does not have separate listings for at least some of subspecies of the Yellow-faced Grassquit, since they are field-diagnosable.
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- 715 pixels x 678 pixels
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- 68 KB