Red-headed Wood Warbler

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Red-headed Wood Warbler
Red-headed Wood Warbler

Red-headed Wood Warbler

Systematics
Order : Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination : Songbirds (passeri)
Superfamily : Passeroidea
Family : Wood Warbler (Parulidae)
Genre : Myiothlypis
Type : Red-headed Wood Warbler
Scientific name
Myiothlypis conspicillatus
( Salvin & Godman , 1880)

The red-headed wood warbler ( Myiothlypis conspicillata , syn .: Basileuterus conspicillatus ), also called the white-reins wood warbler, is a small songbird from the genus Myiothlypis in the family of the wood warbler (Parulidae). The distribution area is in northern Colombia . The species is closely related to the gray-throated wood warbler ( Myiothlypis cinereicollis ) and the gold-crowned wood warbler ( Myiothlypis coronata ). The IUCN lists the species as "near threatened".

features

Red-headed warbler reach a body length of 13.5 centimeters. The wing length is 6 centimeters in the females; no information is available for the males. Adults and young birds from the first year on have a blackish-gray forehead and blackish-gray stripes on the top of the head that run to the neck. The rather narrow parting is yellowish-orange. The interrupted dark circles and the area above the blackish reins are white and form a prominent interrupted glasses. The central nape, the sides of the neck and the ear covers are medium gray. The upper side plumage and the tail are olive green, the wings are dark brown with olive green feather edges. The lower beard area and the throat are pale gray, the rest of the underside plumage is bright yellow with olive-gray faded breast plumage and olive-gray faded flanks.

Occurrence, nutrition and reproduction

There are few studies of the red-headed wood warbler. The species is one of three wood warbler species found in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in northern Colombia. The animals, which are true to their location, inhabit moist forests, forest edges and well-developed healthy vegetation at altitudes of 700 to 2200 meters. They look for their food in the lower and middle regions of the vegetation, usually in the dense scrub or undergrowth.

They place the dome-shaped nest on the ground or under tree roots. A clutch consists of three to four eggs. There are no precise studies of the breeding season or the incubation and nestling time. Birds ready to reproduce have been observed between April and June.

Systematics

Red-crowned wood warbler were previously seen as a subspecies of the gray-throated wood warbler or as a subspecies of the gold-crowned wood warbler.

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literature

  • Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 , pp. 82 and 214.

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