White-throated Shrike-Tanager

Description:

Slender tanager with fairly long tail and strong bill sharply hooked at tip, upper mandible with well-developed “tooth” on cutting edge. It has about 20 cm; 30–45 g , it is consider uncommon to locally fairly common throughout much of range The White-throated Shrike-Tanager is usually found in pairs with mixed-species flocks, where its chattering calls serve to ‘steer’ the flock, and it normally perches relatively motionless, only occasionally seizing some insect that has been disturbed by the passage of another bird. The species is found in tall, humid lowland or foothill forest, from sea level to at least 750 m, and it is mainly seen in the midstory to lower canopy.

Habitat:

Rainforest

Notes:

I have noticed differences in colors patterns in between specimens from the South pacific of CR and the Caribbean side.