Woodcap Warbler
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American Redstart |
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| Setophaga ruticilla | ||||||||||||
| ( Linnaeus , 1758) |
The American Redstart ( Setophaga ruticilla ) is an American Singvogelart.
features
The wood warbler becomes 12 cm long and weighs 8.5 g. The male is a black bird with bright orange parts on the wings, tail and flank and a white belly and under tail-coverts. The female has a gray-green back, gray head and white belly and yellow areas on the wings, tail and flank.
Occurrence
The woodcap warbler breeds in Canada and the eastern United States and winters in the West Indies, Central America, and northern South America. He lives in sparse deciduous forests. The bird appears very rarely in Western Europe.
behavior
The woodcap warbler is a showy bird that flaps its wings and tail violently to scare away insects from leaves. It mainly catches its prey in flight, but also pecks it from leaves or the bark of a tree. Sometimes berries are added to the diet.
Reproduction
The female builds a bowl-shaped nest from plant material, animal hair and cobwebs in a tree or bush and incubates two to five eggs. The male is polygamous and will mate with a second female as soon as the first begins to breed. However, the male will help with feeding once the young have hatched. Unlike most polygamous birds, the male marks and defends two spatially separated territories.
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 .
- Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 .
- Stiles, Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica. ISBN 0-8014-9600-4 .
Web links
- Setophaga ruticilla 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 Setophaga ruticilla in the Internet Bird Collection
- Red-tailed wood warbler feathers