Cuban Warbler
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Cuban Warbler ( Setophaga pityophila ) |
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The Cuban Warbler ( Setophaga pityophila , Syn . : Dendroica pityophila ) is a small songbird from the genus Dendroica in the family of the Wood Warbler (Parulidae). The distribution area is in Cuba and the Bahamas . The IUCN lists the species as "not endangered" (least concern).
features
Cuban warblers reach a body length of 13 centimeters and a weight of 7.2 to 8.4 grams. The wing length is 5.6 to 6.04 centimeters in the males, 5.59 to 5.77 centimeters in the females. Adult male Cuban Warbler have yellowish-olive-green crown plumage and slate-gray head plumage, as well as neck and top plumage. The wings are blackish with narrow pale gray feather edges and white wing bands. The throat and the upper chest plumage, which is bordered to the rear with irregular, spotted black stripes, is bright yellow. The remaining underside plumage with tinted brownish-olive flanks is white. The tail is blackish with narrow slate-gray feather edges and white tail tips on the outer feathers, the beak blackish and the legs are blackish-brown.
The adult females resemble the males. The plumage is generally more blunt. The gray upper side plumage is tinted pale brownish-olive, the crown a little pale green and hardly washed out yellow.
Occurrence, nutrition and reproduction
Cuban warblers occur in the Bahamas ( Grand Bahama , Great Abaco and Little Abaco ) and on Cuba ( Pinar del Río and in the northeast of Oriente ). The local animals live in open pine forests. For the most part, they feed on insects. Some individuals could also be observed on the flowers of Agave braceana in the Bahamas while they were ingesting nectar. The bowl-shaped nest, lined with a few feathers, is built in pine trees at heights of 2 to 15 meters and is usually close to the tree trunk. A clutch usually consists of two eggs.
Systematics
The animals in the Bahamas have a darker and lead-green upper plumage and the corolla plumage is more yellowish green, especially on the forehead. The upper yellow breast plumage is less strongly bordered with black lines towards the underside and the flanks are grayer. They were called the subspecies Setophaga p. bahamensis described; however, this subspecies is not officially recognized.
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literature
- Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 , pp. 40 and 140/141.
Web links
- Setophaga pityophila in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2010. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved on 27 May 2011th
- Cuban Warbler at BirdLife International (online, accessed May 27, 2011)