Black-Faced Solitaire

Description:

The black-faced solitaire is a slim thrush, 16-18.5 cm long, and weighing 33 g on average. The adult is slate grey with a black face and chin which contrast with the broad orange bill. The wings and tail are slate-edged black, and the underwing coverts are silvery-white, a feature which shows well in flight. The legs are orange. The call is a nasal ghank or liquid quirt, and the song is a beautiful fluty whistle. teedleedlee…tleedleeee…lee-dah…lee-dah given mainly in the evening from a shady canopy perch. You can hear it in the video.

Habitat:

Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve. The black-faced solitaire (Myadestes melanops) is a bird in the thrush family endemic to highlands in Costa Rica and western Panama.

Notes:

http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/FMPro?-DB... Also for a better shot of this pretty Costarican bird see Jonathans' Sequeira spotting here in Project Noah: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/11...