Scrub Greenlet

The scrub greenlet is 10.5 to 12.5 cm (4.1 to 4.9 in) long and weighs 9.5 to 14 g (0.34 to 0.49 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults of the nominate subspecies H. f. flavipes have a dull olive-green crown, nape, and upperparts with a slightly lighter rump. The sides of their head are pale gray. Their wings' flight feathers are mostly blackish gray with thin greenish edges on the outer webs of the primaries and secondaries and wider greenish yellow edges on the tertials. Their tail is greenish gray. Their chin, throat, and breast are whitish gray and their belly pale yellowish. Voice: The scrub greenlet's song varies among the subspecies. In Costa Rica it sings "a sweet and simple we-cher, we-cher, we-cher, we-cher, we-cher, we-cher, wee". In Venezuela it sings "a penetrating series, turee, turee, turee...of 4-20 or more notes" and makes a nasal scold "nyaa-nyaa-nyaa...". On Tobago its song is "a musical series of 10–20 even-pitched notes, tree, tree, tree, tree...