Olive flank wood warbler

Olive flank wood warbler
	Olive-flanked warbler ( Myiothlypis leucoblephara )
Systematics
Order :	Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination :	Songbirds (passeri)
Superfamily :	Passeroidea
Family :	Wood Warbler (Parulidae)
Genre :	Myiothlypis
Type :	Olive flank wood warbler
Scientific name
	Myiothlypis leucoblephara
	( Vieillot , 1817)

The olive-flanked wood warbler ( Myiothlypis leucoblephara , syn .: Basileuterus leucoblepharus ) is a small songbird from the wood warbler family (Parulidae).

Olive flank warblers reach a body length of 14 to 15 centimeters and weigh around 14 to 21 grams. The wing length is 6.3 to 6.5 centimeters in the male and 5.9 to 6.5 centimeters in the female. Adult olive-flank warblers and young birds from the first year on have a black-gray parting; the rest of the head plumage is gray. A black line runs from the base of the beak backwards into the neck. There is a broken white eye ring around the eye. The upper side plumage is olive green to olive brown; the underside plumage gray-white, which ends in yellow to the rear.

The distribution area extends from Brazil via Paraguay to Uruguay and Argentina . Olive flank warblers inhabit forests from an altitude of 1600 meters.

There are two recognized subspecies:

Myiothlypis leucoblephara leucoblepharus ( Vieillot , 1817) - Southeastern Brazil, Southern Paraguay, Northeastern Argentina
Myiothlypis leucoblephara lemurum Olson , 1975 - Southeast Uruguay and Southeast Brazil

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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 : Olive-flanked Wood Warbler ( Myiothlypis leucoblephara ) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Myiothlypis leucoblephara in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 5 of 2009.