Wood Warbler
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Wood Warbler ( Setophaga pharetra ) |
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The Strichelwaldsänger ( Setophaga pharetra , Syn. : Dendroica pharetra ) is a small songbirds from the kind of tree Waldsänger ( Setophaga ) in the family of Waldsänger (Parulidae). This species forms a superspecies with the gray wood warbler ( Setophaga plumbea ) and the Puerto Rico wood warbler ( Setophaga angelae ) . The distribution area is limited to Jamaica . The IUCN lists the species as "not endangered" (least concern).
features
Wood warbler reach a body length of 12.5 centimeters. The wing length is 6.1 to 6.8 centimeters in the male and 5.9 to 6.3 centimeters in the female. In adult males, the head and front surface including the upper back and shoulders are striped in black and white. The wings are blackish with gray feather edges and two narrow white wing bands. The body is grayish, the upper tail-coverts are olive-gray, the tail is blackish with narrow olive-gray feather edges and the lower-tail coverts are grayish-brown-yellow. The underside plumage is whitish with arrowhead-shaped black bands on the throat, the chest, the grayish faded flanks and the belly area. They often have a dark, dull line on the cheeks. Females are similar to males, but the plumage is generally more blunt with blackish-gray stripes.
Occurrence, nutrition and reproduction
Wood warblers inhabit moist forests at all altitudes, but the species is much less common in moist forests in the lowlands than in the mountains and is only observed outside of the breeding season. They mainly feed on insects and other invertebrates . They lay their bowl-shaped nest well hidden in trees or bushes. The clutch comprises two to four eggs. The breeding season is mainly from March to June, occasionally also after the October rain in November.
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literature
- Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 , pp. 46 and 154.
Web links
- Setophaga pharetra in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2009. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved on December 12 of 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irby J. Lovette, Jorge L. Pérez-Emán, John P. Sullivan, Richard C. Banks, Isabella Fiorentino, Sergio Córdoba-Córdoba, María Echeverry-Galvis, F. Keith Barker, Kevin J. Burns, John Klicka, Scott M. Lanyon & Eldredge Bermingham: A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves) . In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . tape 57 , 2010, p. 753-770 , doi : 10.1016 / j.ympev.2010.07.018 .