Barbados birds (1) (1 Viewer)

[Firebird5]

My brother (who has a casual interest in birds) is currently holidaying in Barbados and is WhatsApping me photos of various birds - apologies in advance for the variable quality.

I've never been to the Caribbean and am therefore not especially familiar with its avifauna, but have reasonably confidently identified three of them from the internet as Grey Kingbird, Bananaquit and Green Heron - please confirm if I'm right.







I can't identify the hummingbird (I think?):

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Agree with your 3 id's. Try Green-throated Carib for the hummer

 

[Firebird5]

Thanks Larry. I found photos of a few hummer species found in Barbados that were black / dark with long decurved bills, but that was the species that I thought most likely.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Surely Bananaquit is due a review with the potential for an array of splits, they can look so different depending where you are.

 

[njlarsen]

Back in 2012 there was a discussion of the Bananaquit in the taxonomy forum: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=163458

Niels

 

[Nutcracker]

Back in 2012 there was a discussion of the Bananaquit in the taxonomy forum: https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=163458

Niels

Despite talk of forthcoming splits in that thread, still just one species (with 41 subspp!) in IOC :t: