page_title: List of birds of Jamaica
section_title: Tanagers and allies
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Jamaica / Tanagers and allies
caption_attribution_description: English: Black-faced grassquit (Tiaris bicolor) male, Jamaica
context_page_description: This is a list of the bird species recorded in Jamaica. The avifauna of Jamaica included a total of 326 species as of December 2019, according to Bird Checklists of the World. Of them, 28 are endemic, 20 have been introduced by humans, and 160 are rare or accidental. Another species is concentrated in one area and might also have been introduced. Five species have been extirpated and one is extinct. Eighteen species are globally threatened.
  This list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are those of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2019 edition.
  The following tags have been used to highlight several categories of occurrence.
  Accidental - a species that rarely or accidentally occurs in Jamaica
  Endemic - a species endemic to Jamaica
  Endemic subspecies - a subspecies endemic to Jamaica
  (I) Introduced - a species introduced directly to Jamaica or elsewhere in the New World
  Extirpated - a species that no longer occurs in Jamaica although populations exist elsewhere
  Conservation status is highlighted as follows; the status applies to the species' worldwide population, not that in Jamaica except for endemics:
  Near-threatened
  (V) Vulnerable
  Endangered
  Critically endangered
context_section_description: Order: Passeriformes   Family: Thraupidae
  The tanagers are a large group of small to medium-sized passerine birds restricted to the New World, mainly in the tropics. Many species are brightly coloured. As a family they are omnivorous, but individual species specialize in eating fruits, seeds, insects, or other types of food. Most have short, rounded wings.
  Red-legged honeycreeper, Cyanerpes cyaneus (A)
  Saffron finch, Sicalis flaveola (I)
  Bananaquit, Coereba flaveola flaveola (Es)
  Yellow-faced grassquit, Tiaris olivacea
  Orangequit, Euneornis campestris (E)
  Greater Antillean bullfinch, Melopyrrha violacea ruficollis (Es)
  Yellow-shouldered grassquit, Loxipasser anoxanthus (E)
  Black-faced grassquit, Melanospiza bicolor
caption: Male black-faced grassquit
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