Orangequit
(Euneornis campestris)
Photographed at Rockland’s Bird Sanctuary,
Montego Bay, Jamaica Aug 2013
The Orangequit
is a Tanager that is endemic to Jamaica, where it occurs in a wide variety of
habitats, from mountain evergreen forest to disturbed forest edge and secondary
forest.
The adult male Orangequit is very distinctive,
with a cobalt blue body, a square orange patch on the throat, and a short,
pointed, curved bill. The Female Orangequit have olive-gray upper parts, with dull
yellow-olive under parts, and a gray head. Young males are like females, but
often have small patches of colorful feathers, most commonly on the coverts,
chest, or throat.
The Orangequit feeds on fruits and
nectar, and is a common bird of forest canopy or edges, wherever there are
fruits or flowers. This species will travel in pairs or in mixed-species
flocks of nectivores and insectivores, especially when feeding on flowering
emergent trees.
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