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Margarops fuscus
Photo by Richard Ford
Photo taken: St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean.

Identification

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.

Distribution

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.

Taxonomy

Habitat

moist and semi-arid forests and woodlands.

Behaviour

Voice: repeated phrases similar to Tropical Mockingbird, but with less vigor.

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