Please help identify this Puerto Rican bird (1 Viewer)

[DorLowell]

Please help me identify this bird I saw last week while vacationing in Puerto Rico. It had a wonderful song, and was very fast moving and tough to get a good photo. If you have measurements of the bird from beak to end tail that would be great. I would like to carve one for my friend who lives in PR.
Thanks!

 

[Glen Tepke]

Looks like a Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola). Length is about 3.75 inches.

 

[Charles Harper]

It looks like a Bananaquit. Is there a different species in Puerto Rico than in Florida, cuckooroller?

... PS:　or Glen? You snuck in there before me.

 

[Glen Tepke]

I believe there is only one widespread species.

 

[cuckooroller]

It looks like a Bananaquit. Is there a different species in Puerto Rico than in Florida, cuckooroller?

... PS:　or Glen? You snuck in there before me.

Eccomi Charles and Glen,

Coereba flaveola - the only member of this monotypic genus, it may be said with a certain element of truth, that it might be considered polysubspecific.

i.e.:

Coereba flaveola has 41 subspecies
Coereba flaveola flaveola
Coereba flaveola minima
Coereba flaveola mexicana
Coereba flaveola tricolor
Coereba flaveola oblita
Coereba flaveola sharpei
Coereba flaveola bananivora
Coereba flaveola nectarea
Coereba flaveola portoricensis
Coereba flaveola sanctithomae
Coereba flaveola newtoni
Coereba flaveola bartholemica
Coereba flaveola martinicana
Coereba flaveola barbadensis
Coereba flaveola aterrima
Coereba flaveola cerinoclunis
Coereba flaveola columbiana
Coereba flaveola uropygialis
Coereba flaveola bonariensis
Coereba flaveola bahamensis
Coereba flaveola caboti
Coereba flaveola atrata
Coereba flaveola melanornis
Coereba flaveola lowii
Coereba flaveola ferryi
Coereba flaveola frailensis
Coereba flaveola laurae
Coereba flaveola luteola
Coereba flaveola obscura
Coereba flaveola montana
Coereba flaveola caucae
Coereba flaveola gorgonae
Coereba flaveola intermedia
Coereba flaveola bolivari
Coereba flaveola guianensis
Coereba flaveola roraimae
Coereba flaveola pacifica
Coereba flaveola magnirostris
Coereba flaveola dispar
Coereba flaveola chloropyga
Coereba flaveola alleni


This one, from Puerto Rico, is obviously, subspecies portoricensis.

How's that, Charles!!

 

[Charles Harper]

Whew! Did you type that in manually, or copy and paste?

 

[cuckooroller]

Whew! Did you type that in manually, or copy and paste?

Charles,

You must take me for a real basket case! Of course, I cut and pasted (from Avibase).

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