This bird is endemic to Jamaica. Its black plumage has a blue gloss on the head and back. In montane forest with many epiphytes, it uses its long bill to search for food.
Adults are black, with a blue gloss on the head, upperparts, and some wing coverts, but not on the belly. The bill is longer and narrower than in other blackbirds in its family.
It climbs vines and trunks, probing among epiphytes and bark crevices with its long bill. It eats insects, spiders, and snails, and sometimes fruit.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, Jamaican Blackbird was associated with less-disturbed forest sites.