Cuban Solitaire (Myadestes elisabeth)
About the Cuban Solitaire
The Cuban solitaire (Myadestes elisabeth), also known as the Cuban nightingale, is a species of bird in the family Turdidae, the thrushes. It is endemic to Cuba. The Cuban solitaire was originally described in 1850 as Muscicapa elisabeth, erroneously placing it as an Old World flycatcher. The Cuban solitaire is monotypic. It previously had a second subspecies, M. e. retrusus (Bangs & Zappey, 1905), which went extinct in the 1930s.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 27 recordings for this species: 20 CC BY-NC-SA · 7 CC BY-NC-ND. 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 Cuba in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Andean SolitaireMyadestes ralloidesrecording
- Black-faced SolitaireMyadestes melanopsrecording
- Rufous-throated SolitaireMyadestes genibarbisrecording
- Townsend's SolitaireMyadestes townsendirecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.