Orange-cheeked Waxbill

A medium-sized, big-billed pale ashy-gray songbird with a rufous belly. Black eye is conspicuous on pale gray head. Juveniles show brown edgings to wing and tail feathers. A small island specialist, found in scrub, forest, and plantations in the lowlands, and on some islands into the foothills. Lack of black facial markings separates it from adult Black-faced Monarch. Absence of gray semicircle in front of the eye rules out juvenile Black-faced Monarch. Song is a “whitcheeoo,” descending in pitch. Calls include rasping “schuk” notes.

Dark brown foliage-gleaner of mature rainforest understory. Warm dark brown body, with a clean whitish throat patch and reddish brown tail. Does not have prominent reddish brown in the wings like many other foliage-gleaners do; the clean whitish throat, plain face (without a strong eyebrow) and habit of foraging low are other good distinguishing features to tell it apart from other foliage-gleaners. Primarily found in the understory of mature rainforest. Listen for its song, a musical trill with stuttered introductory note, “ch-trrrrrrrr”, similar to that of Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaner from denser secondary growth habitats, but slightly lower and with a more distinct introductory note.

A fruit-loving inhabitant of woodlands and gardens. Adult is yellow (often tinged green or orange), sports a black beard, and has very large white wing patches covering half of the otherwise black wing. Immatures look similar, but they have two broad white wingbars instead of a white patch. Immature male Orchard Oriole looks somewhat similar, but it is smaller and lacks the bold white wing markings seen on Jamaican Orioles. Songs include a rapid series of rich, whistled, and mostly down-slurred phrases and “cheat-you, cheat-you, cheat-you, cheat-you, cheat.”