Birdfinding.info ⇒ The eastern counterpart of the closely related Yellow-headed Warbler is locally common mainly along Cuba’s eastern and southern coasts and in its southern mountains. It is readily found on Cayo Coco and neighboring islands, and at many sites in the far south. At the western edge of its range, it can be found in coastal scrub at Topes de Collantes National Park, where it occurs alongside the Yellow-headed Warbler.
Oriente Warbler
Teretistris fornsi
Endemic to central and eastern Cuba and its northern keys.
Occurs mainly in forest understory and brushy thickets, at all elevations, from southeasternmost Cuba west to Cienfuegos and northern Matanzas Province, and on the major keys of the Jardines del Rey Archipelago.
Identification
A small gray-and-yellow songbird with gray upperparts, yellow breast and face, and bright lemon-yellow eyering.
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Romano, Cuba; May 30, 2013.) © José M. Pantaleón
Oriente Warbler. (Playa Pesquero, Holguín, Cuba; February 18, 2018.) © Suzanne Labbé
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Romano, Cuba; April 14, 2017.) © Bob Lewis
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; April 9, 2018.) © Michael J. Good
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Paredón Grande, Cuba; November 10, 2017.) © Michael J. Good
Oriente Warbler. (Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; March 3, 2018.) © Wayne Fidler
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; April 27, 2017.) © Dave Wendelken
Oriente Warbler, showing the thick bill that is characteristic of this family. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; April 9, 2018.) © Michael J. Good
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; February 1, 2018.) © Felipe Pimentel
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; December 8, 2014.) © Dubi Shapiro
Oriente Warbler, showing the thick bill that is characteristic of this family. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; November 17, 2018.) © Jay Greenberg
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; February 11, 2015.) © Michael J. Good
Oriente Warbler. (Camagüey, Cuba; February 26, 2018.) © Arco Huang
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Romano, Cuba; May 30, 2013.) © José M. Pantaleón
Oriente Warbler, showing the peculiar keel shape of its bill. (Cayo Romano, Cuba; May 30, 2013.) © José M. Pantaleón
Oriente Warbler. (Jardines del Rey Airport, Cayo Coco, Cuba; February 15, 2018.) © Chris Conard
Oriente Warbler. (Siboney Nature Reserve, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba; April 19, 2007.) © Miguel A. Landestoy T.
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; April 27, 2017.) © Dave Wendelken
Oriente Warbler, showing the peculiar keel shape of its bill and indentation of its facial feathers. (Cayo Paredón Grande, Cuba; March 18, 2014.) © Sue Wright
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Paredón Grande, Cuba; February 4, 2017.) © Dušan M. Brinkhuizen
Oriente Warbler. (Cienfuegos, Cuba; March 21, 2018.) © Aslam Ibrahim Castellón Maure
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; February 28, 2017.) © Jukka Jantunen
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; March 9, 2015.) © Morten Venas
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; May 4, 2013.) © William Price
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Coco, Cuba; February 16, 2013.) © Hank Davis
Oriente Warbler. (Cayo Paredón Grande, Cuba; March 2013.) © Ian Merrill
Oriente Warbler. (Camagüey, Cuba; February 26, 2018.) © Arco Huang
Notes
Monotypic species.
References
BirdLife International 2016. Teretistris fornsi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22721870A94736328. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22721870A94736328.en. (Accessed June 11, 2019.)
Curson, J. 2019. Oriente Warbler (Teretistris fornsi). 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/61519. (Accessed June 11, 2019.)
eBird. 2019. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y. http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed June 12, 2019.)
Garrido, O.H, and A. Kirkconnell. 2000. Field Guide to the Birds of Cuba. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y.
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.