Caribbean Elaenia

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Tyrannidae

Genus

Elaenia

eBird Code

carela1

Vocalizations

Subspecies (7)

• Elaenia martinica barbadensis

  Barbados

• Elaenia martinica caymanensis

  Cayman Islands

• Elaenia martinica chinchorrensis

  Great Cay Island, Chinchorro Bank, off Quintana Roo (eastern Mexico), and Half Moon Caye, Belize; the subspecific identity of elaenias on other cayes off Belize is not established, and the validity of the poorly known chinchorrensis is questioned by some

• Elaenia martinica cinerescens

  San Andrés, Providéncia, and Santa Catalina islands (to far northwest of Colombia, off eastern Nicaragua)

• Elaenia martinica martinica

  Lesser Antilles (south to Grenada)

• Elaenia martinica remota

  islas Holbox, Mujeres, and Cozumel (off Yucatan Peninsula); the populations on cayes of Belize also may belong to this subspecies

• Elaenia martinica riisii

  Puerto Rico to Anguilla, southeastward to Antigua; Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire