Red throated warbler
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The red-throated warbler ( Sialia sialis ) is a medium-sized songbird belonging to the thrush family.
features
The 18 cm long red-throated hut warbler is bright blue on the top, chestnut brown on the throat, chest and flanks and white on the belly and rump. The female is much paler and has a larger white belly area.
Occurrence
The distribution area of the Rotkehl-Hüttensänger extends over the eastern North and Central America. There he lives in fields, open forest landscapes, forest edges and parks.
behavior
The bird feeds on insects, spiders and berries.
Reproduction
The bird breeds twice a year in the north and three times in the south. The female builds a simple, bowl-shaped nest in a nest box or a tree hole. The clutch consists of three to seven bluish eggs, which are mainly incubated by the female for 12 to 14 days. The young birds are fed by both parents and fledged after 14 to 20 days. Since the Eastern Bluebird with other types of nests must, and the eggs often compete victims of nest predators such as the house sparrow and the Star will own nesting boxes are designed for the popular bird.
Others
Red-throated slugger is the state bird of Missouri and New York . The genus of Sialia is called Bluebird there. It is sung about in several songs.
Subspecies
There are eight known subspecies:
- S. s. sialis ( Linnaeus , 1758) - The nominate form occurs from southern and southeastern Canada through the eastern and central USA to northeastern Mexico .
- S. s. grata Bangs , 1898 - This subspecies occurs in southern Florida .
- S. s. bermudensis Verrill, AH , 1901 - This subspecies is found in Bermuda .
- S. s. nidificans Phillips, AR , 1991 - This subspecies is found in eastern central Mexico.
- S. s. fulva Brewster , 1885 - This subspecies is distributed from the southwestern United States to central Mexico.
- S. s. guatemalae Ridgway , 1882 - This subspecies occurs in southeastern Mexico and Guatemala .
- S. s. meridionalis Dickey & van Rossem , 1930 - This subspecies occurs in El Salvador , Honduras and northern Nicaragua .
- S. s. caribaea Howell, TR , 1965 - The range of this subspecies extends over the east of Honduras to the northeast of Nicaragua.
literature
- Colin Harrison & Alan Greensmith: Birds. Dorling Kindersley Limited, London 1993, 2000, ISBN 3-8310-0785-3
- Bryan Richard: Birds. Parragon, Bath, ISBN 1-4054-5506-3
- Carl von Linné: Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis . 10th edition. tape 1 . Imprensis Direct Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm 1758 ( online [accessed March 23, 2015]).
- Alpheus Hyatt Verrill: Additions to the Avifauna of the Bermudas with diagnoses of two new subspecies . In: The American journal of science (= 4 ). tape 12 , no. 67 , 1901, pp. 64–65 ( online [accessed February 23, 2015]).
- Thomas Raymond Howell: New Subspecies of Birds From the Lowland Pine Savanna of Northeastern Nicaragua . In: The Auk . tape 82 , no. 3 , 1965, p. 438–464 (English, online [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on February 23, 2015]).
- William Brewster: Preliminary Notes on Some Birds Obtained In Arizona By Mr. F. Stephens In 1884 . In: The Auk . tape 2 , no. 1 , 1885, p. 84–85 (English, online [PDF; 93 kB ; accessed on February 23, 2015]).
- Outram Bangs: Some New Races of Birds From Eastern North America . In: The Auk . tape 15 , no. 2 , 1898, p. 173–183 (English, online [PDF; 406 kB ; accessed on February 23, 2015]).
- Allan Robert Phillips: The known birds of North and Middle America. Distributions and Variation, Migrations, Changes, Hybrids, etc. Band 2 (Bombycillidae; Sylviidae to Sturnidae; Vireoni). Published by the Author, Denver 1991, ISBN 978-0-9617402-1-4 .
- Donald Ryder Dickey, Adriaan Joseph van Rossem: A New Bluebird From El Salvador . In: The Condor . tape 32 , no. 1 , 1930, p. 69–70 (English, online [PDF; 191 kB ; accessed on February 23, 2015]).
- Robert Ridgway: Description of several new races of American Birds . In: Proceedings of the United States National Museum . tape 5 , no. 259 , 1982, pp. 9-15 ( online [accessed March 23, 2015]).
Web links
- Sialia sialis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings of Sialia sialis in the Internet Bird Collection