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The red-billed streamertail is the national bird of Jamaica. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Jamaica. The avifauna of Jamaica included a total of 332 species as of July 2022, according to Bird Checklists of the World. Of them, 28 are endemic, 19 have been introduced by humans, and 159 are rare or accidental. Another species (great-tailed grackle) is concentrated in one area and ...
The top of the Jamaican pewee is dark-olive toned, while the wings and tail become darker and the stomach is paler. [3] While the male and female birds look similar, the younger birds are grayer on the top and paler on the stomach and beak than the adult birds. [4] The lifespan of the Jamaican pewee is 3.5 years on average. [2]
The Jamaican tody is a small, chunky bird that averages about 9 cm (or 4.25”) in size. [10] [11] The wing size for all tody species ranges between 42.8mm and 50.3mm. [2]The Jamaican tody's wing size is intermediate between these sizes (about 46mm) compared to the Cuban and Puerto Rican todies, which tend to have smaller wings, and the broad-billed tody, which has the largest. [2]
Todies range in weight from 5 to 7 g and in length from 10 to 11.5 cm. They have colourful plumage, and resemble kingfishers in their general shape.They have green heads, backs and wings, red throats (absent in immature Puerto Rican, broad-billed, and narrow-billed todies) [8] with a white and blue-grey stripe on each side, and yellow undertail coverts; the colour of the rest of the undersides ...
The Jamaican ibis, Jamaican flightless ibis [1] or clubbed-wing ibis [2] (Xenicibis xympithecus) is an extinct bird species of the ibis subfamily uniquely characterized by its club-like wings. [3] It is the only species in the genus Xenicibis , [ 1 ] and one of only two flightless ibis genera, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the other being the genus Apteribis ...
For a lone potoo, or a brooding adult with a potential predator close to the nest, the bird attempts to avoid detection by remaining motionless and relying on camouflage. If ineffective, the potoo breaks cover and attempts to intimidate the predator by opening its beak and eyes wide open while vocalizing or simply flies out of reach.
Todus is a genus of birds found in the Caribbean.It is the only genus within the todies family Todidae.The five species are small birds of the forests of the Greater Antilles: Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba, with adjacent islands, have one species each, and Hispaniola has two, the broad-billed tody in the lowlands (including Gonâve Island) and the narrow-billed tody in the highlands.
The Jamaican blackbird (Nesopsar nigerrimus) is a species of bird in the New World blackbird and oriole family Icteridae. It is the only species ( monotypic ) in the genus Nesopsar . [ 2 ] The species has sometimes been included in the genus Agelaius , but molecular systematics have shown it not be closely related to any living New World ...