Return of Bird of the Week: Black-capped Donacobius

The last few weeks we’ve been looking at Oropendolas, members of the Icterid family of birds, a family with dozens of members. Today we visit a monotypic family of birds, whose single member is the Black-capped Donacobius. In WC’s lifetime, this species has been considered a Mimid, like a thrasher or a mocking birds, a wren, and now a monotypic. And there are suggestions it may be a member of an Old Word family of warblers. So much for certainty. It’s a handsome bird, mates for life and is almost always seen in pairs. It’s a cooperative breeder; the kids…