Black Warbler

Black Warbler
Black Warbler ( Cardellina pusilla )
Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes) Subordination : Songbirds (passeri) Superfamily : Passeroidea Family : Wood Warbler (Parulidae) Genre : Cardellina Type : Black Warbler
Scientific name
Cardellina pusilla
( Wilson , 1811)

The wood warbler ( Cardellina pusilla , Syn . : Wilsonia pusilla ) is a small bird in the wood warbler family (Parulidae). The American Ornithologists' Union classified the species in the genus Cardellina in 2011 , before the bird was in Wilsonia .

The plumage is olive-brown to green-brown on the upper side. The male's crown is black. The underside plumage is yellow.

They mainly feed on insects , which they catch in flight.

The monk warbler lay their bowl-shaped nests on the ground. A clutch consists of four to six eggs.

The breeding areas are in the open woodlands in the north of North America , from Canada to the south, mainly in the west of North America. In winter they move to Central America and are also rare guests in Western Europe .

literature

• Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 .

Web links

Commons : Mönchswaldsänger  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Mönchswaldsänger  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Cardellina pusilla in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.
• Videos, photos and sound recordings of Wilsonia pusilla in the Internet Bird Collection
• Feathers of the monk wood warbler

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fifty-second supplement to the american ornithologists' union check-list of north american birds . In: The Auk . 128, No. 3, 2011, pp. 600-613. doi : 10.1525 / auk.2011.128.3.600 . Retrieved September 30, 2015.