Tricolor Wood Warbler
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Three-colored wood warbler ( Cardellina rubrifrons ) |
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The three-colored wood warbler ( Cardellina rubrifrons ) is a small bird in the wood warbler family (Parulidae) and one of at least three species in the genus Cardellina .
Three-color wood warbler have black plumage on the crown, which extends laterally towards the head. The rest of the head, except for the white neck, and the chest plumage, which extends to the front of the abdomen, is red. To the rear, the plumage runs white to light gray. The upper side plumage has a light gray to gray color.
The habitats are in the forests in the mountains of North America . Mainly in forests with spruce, pine and oak.
They build their bowl-shaped nests from grass and pine needles, well hidden in the ground vegetation in the woods. The female lays three to four brown-spotted white eggs in the nest.
literature
- Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 .
Web links
- Cardellina rubrifrons in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed on December 22 of 2008.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings for Cardellina rubrifrons in the Internet Bird Collection