Whistling Warbler

© Greg Griffith

© Jesse Fagan

Birdfinding.info ⇒  Rare and endangered but still locally common in the St. Vincent Parrot Preserve.  It can be found consistently along the Vermont Nature Trail.

Whistling Warbler

Catharopeza bishopi

Family: Parulidae

Endemic to St. Vincent, where it occurs in rain forest undergrowth at middle elevations of the interior.  Most of the population resides in the south-central portion of the island, but it may occur wherever suitable habitat remains.

Identification

A plump, dark warbler that habitually cocks its tail like certain wrens.  Mostly chocolate brown with a strikingly bold white eyering and throat collar.

Whistling Warbler.  (Vermont Trail, St. Vincent Parrot Preserve, St. Vincent; April 12, 2017.)  © Frantz Delcroix

Whistling Warbler.  (Vermont Trail, St. Vincent Parrot Preserve, St. Vincent; February 23, 2014.)  © Stephen Gast

Whistling Warbler.  (St. Vincent; November 14, 2009.)  © John C. Mittermeier

Whistling Warbler.  (Vermont Trail, St. Vincent Parrot Preserve, St. Vincent; May 23, 2018.)  © Dan Weedmann

Voice.  Song is a rising series of notes that ends with two or three sharper whistles:

Notes

Monotypic species.

IUCN Red List Status: Endangered.

References

BirdLife International. 2016. Catharopeza bishopi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22721755A94728927. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22721755A94728927.en. (Accessed November 9, 2019.)

Curson, J. 2019. Whistling Warbler (Catharopeza bishopi). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D.A. Christie, and E. de Juana, eds.). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. https://www.hbw.com/node/61495. (Accessed November 9, 2019.)

Curson, J., D. Quinn, and D. Beadle. 1994. Warblers of the Americas: An Identification Guide. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

eBird. 2019. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y. http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed November 9, 2019.)

Farnsworth, A. 2009. Whistling Warbler (Catharopeza bishopi), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T.S. Schulenberg, ed.). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.whiwar1.01.

Raffaele, H., J. Wiley, O. Garrido, A. Keith, and J. Raffaele. 1998. A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.