The Grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night. |
They include the bananaquit, the blue-black grassquit, the blackfaced grassquit, and the St. Lucia black finch. |
Similarly, a gene that affects pigmentation in birds like the chicken and the bananaquit also affects pigmentation in mammals like the jaguar and you. |
Endemic subspecies include Caribbean elaenia, bananaquit, loggerhead kingbird, thick-billed vireo, and vitelline warbler. |
In reading the thick manual on the house that had accrued over the years, I read about Billy Boy, a Bahamian bananaquit bird that visited the house. |
More than 20 species of tropical birds, such as the ani and the bananaquit, nest on the island, and dozens of migrating species visit. |