White-fronted wood warbler
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White-fronted Warbler ( Myioborus albifrons ) |
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The white-fronted wood warbler ( Myioborus albifrons ) is a small songbird from the genus Myioborus in the wood warbler family (Parulidae). The distribution area is in Venezuela . The IUCN currently lists them as "Near Threatened".
features
White-fronted wood warbler reach a body length of 13 to 13.5 centimeters. The wing length is 6.2 to 7.1 centimeters in the male and 6.8 centimeters in the female. Adult white-fronted wood warbler and young birds from the first year on have black crown plumage with a large, centered reddish-brown crown spot and black feather tips. The wide white circles under the eyes are connected to each other by a narrow white band over the reins and the forehead and thus form concise glasses. The rest of the head plumage, the neck and the upper side plumage are dark gray. The wings are blackish with dark gray feather edges. The tail is also blackish with white outer tail feathers. The underside plumage is light yellow to yellow, the under tail-coverts white and the beak and legs are blackish.
Occurrence
White-fronted warblers are endemic to the Andes in western Venezuela . They occur in the Cordillera de Mérida mountain range in Trujillo , Mérida and mostly in the extreme south of Táchira . Preferred habitats are in mountain forests, on the edges of forests and partly in cloud forests at altitudes of 2200 to 3200 meters. Occasionally they can also be found up to an altitude of 4000 meters. Like all wood warbler species, they mainly feed on insects which, like the flycatchers , they catch from a perch in the higher vegetation or usually dig up in the treetops. There are no records of the breeding, incubation or nestling times. Young birds that had just fledged were spotted in June.
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literature
- Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 , pp. 76 and 203-204.
Web links
- Myioborus albifrons in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2009. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved on December 30 of 2009.