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Black-cheeked Warbler (Basileuterus melanogenys)

Black-cheeked Warbler
Photo: er-birds via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Black-cheeked Warbler

The black-cheeked warbler (Basileuterus melanogenys) is a species of bird in the family Parulidae, the New World warblers. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. The black-cheeked warbler was formally described in 1865 with its current binomial Basileuterus melanogenys. It has these three subspecies: B. m. melanogenys Baird, 1865 B. m. eximius Nelson, 1912 B. m. bensoni Griscom, 1927 What is now the Pirre warbler (M. ignotus) was originally described as another subspecies of the black-cheeked warber; they form a superspecies.

Source: Black-cheeked warbler on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 32 recordings for this species: 13 CC BY-NC-ND · 6 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.

As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.

Listed as recorded in Costa Rica, Panama in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Related species you can hear

This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.