Birdfinding.info ⇒ Common in most of its small range. On Grand Bahama it is especially common in the Lucayan Estates. On Abaco it is common throughout, and easily found in Abaco National Park. On Cuba the most reliable sites are Viñales, La Güira National Park, and Las Terrazas.
Olive-capped Warbler
Setophaga pityophila
Endemic to Cuba and the northern Bahamas (Grand Bahama and Abaco), where it primarily inhabits pine forests. On Cuba, it occurs mainly in the western mountains of Pinar del Río and Artemisa, but sometimes wanders east to the Zapata Swamp region. There is also a separate, smaller population in the far southeastern mountains of Holguín and Guantánamo provinces.
Identification
Medium gray above and pale gray or whitish below, with an olive forecrown and a bright yellow throat that is partly framed by black streaks.
Olive-capped Warbler. (Blue Hole, Abaco, Bahamas; May 25, 2017.) © Brendan Fogarty
Olive-capped Warbler. (Sendero La Ermita, Pinar del Río, Cuba; February 21, 2018.) © Arco Huang
Olive-capped Warbler. (Abaco National Park, Bahamas; March 24, 2017.) © Frank Salmon
Olive-capped Warbler. (Hacienda La Cortina, Pinar del Río, Cuba; March 20, 2013.) © Grace Oliver
Olive-capped Warbler. (Hacienda La Cortina, La Guira National Park, Cuba; March 2013.) © Ian Merrill
Olive-capped Warbler. (Hacienda La Cortina, La Guira National Park, Cuba; March 2013.) © Ian Merrill
Olive-capped Warbler. (La Güira National Park, Cuba; March 26, 2008.) © William Price
Olive-capped Warbler. (Cafetal Buenavista, Las Terrazas, Artemisa, Cuba; February 6, 2017.) © Michael J. Good
Olive-capped Warbler. (Viñales, Pinar del Río, Cuba; February 23, 2018.) © Christoph Moning
Olive-capped Warbler. (Las Terrazas, Sierra del Rosario Biosphere Reserve, Artemisa, Cuba; February 21, 2018.) © Arco Huang
Olive-capped Warbler. (Viñales, Pinar del Río, Cuba; February 23, 2018.) © Christoph Moning
Olive-capped Warbler. (Blue Hole, North Abaco, Bahamas; May 25, 2017.) © Brendon Fogarty
Olive-capped Warbler. (La Güira National Park, Cuba; March 26, 2008.) © William Price
Notes
Monotypic species.
References
Curson, J., D. Quinn, and D. Beadle. 1994. Warblers of the Americas: An Identification Guide. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
Curson, J. 2019. Olive-capped Warbler (Setophaga pityophila). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D.A. Christie, and E. de Juana, eds.). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. https://www.hbw.com/node/61483. (Accessed November 15, 2019.)
eBird. 2019. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y. http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed November 15, 2019.)
Raffaele, H., J. Wiley, O. Garrido, A. Keith, and J. Raffaele. 1998. A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.