Hooded Warbler

Hooded Warbler
Hooded Warbler ( Setophaga citrina ), male
Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes) Subordination : Songbirds (passeri) Superfamily : Passeroidea Family : Wood Warbler (Parulidae) Genre : Wood Warbler ( Setophaga ) Type : Hooded Warbler
Scientific name
Setophaga citrina
( Boddaert , 1783)

The Hooded Warbler ( Setophaga citrina , Syn .: Wilsonia citrina ) is a small bird from the genus of the tree warbler ( Setophaga ) in the family of the wood warbler (Parulidae).

The plumage is olive green to green brown on the upper side. They have yellow plumage on the underside and face. In the male, the crown is black and the black plumage extends like a hood at the level of the ears down to the throat and to the top of the chest.

Hooded warbler feed mainly on insects that they find in the low vegetation or catch in flight.

They put their bowl-shaped nests close to the ground in a bush or shrub. A clutch consists of three to five eggs. A common brood parasite of the hooded wood warbler is the brown-headed cowbird ( Molothrus ater ).

The breeding areas of the hooded warbler are in the east of North America and in southern Canada . 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 : Hooded Wood Warbler ( Setophaga citrina )  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: hooded warbler  - meaning explanations, word origin, synonyms, translations

• Setophaga citrina in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 30 of 2009.
• Videos, photos and sound recordings for Setophaga citrina in the Internet Bird Collection
• Hooded warbler feathers