| Each time the Grassquit sings, it jumps straight into the air and opens its wings to reveal white patches. |
| They include the bananaquit, the blue-black grassquit, the blackfaced grassquit, and the St. Lucia black finch. |
| Structural plumage coloration, male body size, and condition in the blue-black grassquit. |
| The current guess is that it was the wonderfully named dull-coloured grassquit, because this is the bird with the closest genetic code to the Galapagos finches. |
| They often associated in Oventeni with large groups of primarily Blue-black Grassquit in grassy or recently burned areas. |
| The Grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night. |
