Cardona wood warbler

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Cardona wood warbler
Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Songbirds (passeri)
Superfamily : Passeroidea
Family : Wood Warbler (Parulidae)
Genre : Myioborus
Type : Cardona wood warbler
Scientific name
Myioborus cardonai
Zimmer & Phelps , 1945
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The Cardona Wood Warbler ( Myioborus cardonai ) is a small songbird from the genus Myioborus in the Wood Warbler family (Parulidae). This species is very similar to the white-cheeked wood warbler ( Myioborus albifacies ) and may be conspecific with it . The small distribution area is in Venezuela . The IUCN currently lists them as "Near Threatened".

features

Cardona wood warbler reach a body length of 13 centimeters. Adult Cardona warblers and young birds from the first year have a black forehead, crown and upper black nape plumage. The rest of the head and neck plumage is gray to dark gray. The upper side plumage is also dark gray. A broken white eye ring surrounds the eye. The wings with narrow gray feather edges, the tail and the upper tail-coverts are blackish. The outer tail feathers are white. The underside plumage is orange-yellow and the under tail-coverts white. Legs and beak are blackish.

Occurrence

There are insufficient studies on the Cardona wood warbler. They are predominantly resident birds and have a very limited range. They only occur on the tepuis on the Cerro Guaiquinima mountain in central Bolívar in southern Venezuela. Are documented mountain rain forests at altitudes from 1200 to 1600 meters as a residence. Other biotopes are moist mountain forests , gallery forests and dense bushes. Like the white-cheeked wood warbler, they probably feed primarily on insects . The breeding behavior has not been investigated in detail.

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literature

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

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