Yellow-headed wood warbler

Yellow-headed wood warbler
	Yellow-headed warbler ( Teretistris fernandinae )
Systematics
Order :	Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination :	Songbirds (passeri)
Superfamily :	Passeroidea
Family :	Teretistridae
Genre :	Teretistris
Type :	Yellow-headed wood warbler
Scientific name
	Teretistris fernandinae
	( Lembeye , 1850)

The yellow-headed warbler ( Teretistris fernandinae ) is a small songbird from the genus Teretistris in the family Teretistridae. The distribution area is in the west of Cuba . The IUCN lists this species as "not endangered" (least concern).

features

Yellow-headed wood warbler reach a body length of 13 centimeters. The wing length is 5.4 to 6.04 centimeters in the male and 5.28 to 5.54 centimeters in the female. Adult yellow-headed warbler and young birds from the first year on have an olive-yellow crown and neck plumage. The sides of the neck and ear covers are a little more yellow. The throat feathers and the lower beard area are yellow and the eye ring is pale yellow. The upper side plumage is gray to medium gray; the underside plumage is greyish-white with slightly greyish flanks and under tail-coverts. The wings and tail are blackish-gray with medium-gray feather edges.

Occurrence, nutrition and reproduction

The yellow-headed warbler occurs in all types of forest with a lot of undergrowth and in thickets of bushes in the west of the island state of Cuba, from above sea level to the mountainous regions. From the southwestern Villa Clara via Matanzas , La Habana to Pinar del Río and on the side island Isla de la Juventud . Their diet consists mainly of insects and other invertebrates , which they find in the lower and middle vegetation. They seldom look in the treetops. They can often be seen poking their beak into the cracks and crevices of the tree bark. They build their bowl-shaped nest in the thick undergrowth. The breeding season is from April to May. A clutch consists of two to three eggs.

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literature

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

Web links

Commons : Yellow-headed Wood Warbler - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Teretistris fernandinae in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2009. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved on December 30 of 2009.
Videos, photos and sound recordings on Teretistris fernandinae in the Internet Bird Collection