Carib Grackle

A small, slow-moving species that favors thickets and brush along forest edges and in scrublands. Typically found in pairs; sometimes joins mixed-species flocks with warblers and other vireos. Cuban Vireos have a “bulging eye” appearance created by the white crescent behind the eye and the dull yellowish spot in front of its eye. Also note its hefty bill, weak wingbars, and dull red eye. The similar Thick-billed Vireo has strong wingbars, a yellow spot in front of the eye, and darker eyes. The song is “chweee-ch-byuuu,” with the first note upslurred and last note downslurred. Its calls include a harsh “zzzhhh.”

Unusual, chunky, short-tailed, crested, yellow-eyed member of the vanga family. Males are strikingly black-and-white, with a small white patch at the front of the wing. Females have a chestnut back, blackish head, and pale underparts. The wings are short and rounded, and the flight is weak. Found in the canopy of humid forest, at low and middle elevations, often along forest edge and clearings. The variable song consists of slurred whistles. Calls include rasps and clearer bulbul-like notes.

Small brown warbler of middle elevations, usually retiring and seldom venturing far from the bushes and short trees from which it gives its distinctive song. Rich, dark brown above and paler gray-brown below, with tawny-brown flanks and pale supercilium. Song a resonant, long whistle followed by a short burst of sharp, bright notes, similar to songs of much larger Manchurian and Japanese Bush Warblers but the whistle is much longer and the following notes not as soft and mellow. Endemic Taiwan subspecies (robustipes) sometimes considered species, called Strong-footed Bush Warbler.