Hooded Mountain Tanager

A small honeyeater with a short, downcurved bill. Striking male shows a scarlet head, breast, back, and rump, a contrastingly dark tail and wings, and a whitish belly. Female and juvenile are entirely gray-brown with a diagnostic red wash on the face and throat. Found singly or in pairs at upper levels of hill forest. Male could be mistaken for the similarly-shaped Crimson Sunbird, but is smaller, shorter-billed, and shorter-tailed, with a whitish belly. Song is a short, high-pitched warble, “chew-chew-wit-wit.” Also gives “chew” call notes.

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.”

Tiny, two-toned yellow-and-green flycatcher that inhabit dense woodlands, forest edges, and coastal forests. Note the pale eyes, plain olive-green back, and no wingbars. Whitish below with a lightly streaked throat. Like several other closely-related species it builds an elongated purse-shaped hanging nest. The song is a series of high-pitched “prre-prrew-prrew” notes.