- Margarops fuscus
Description
Fieldmarks :
9 in (23cm) brown upperparts, white underparts with grayish-brown heavy scaling from throat to belly; one whitish wing bar; black bill; yellow-brown eye; white-tipped tail.
Voice :
repeated phrases similar to Tropical Mockingbird, but with less vigor.
Habitat :
moist and semi-arid forests and woodlands.
Range :
Caribbean - Lesser Antilles: fairly common resident from Saba and St Bartholomew south to St Vincent. Rare and local in Grenada and possibly extirpated on St Eustatius, Barbuda and Barbados. These islands comprise the entire range.
Identification
Photo taken in some hotel grounds in St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, in May 2004
