Black-throated green warbler
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S. virens
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| Setophaga virens (Gmelin, 1789)
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Dendroica virens |
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The black-throated green warbler (Setophaga virens) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
It is 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 9 g (0.32 oz), and has an olive-green crown, a yellow face with olive markings, a thin pointed bill, white wing bars, an olive-green back and pale underparts with black streaks on the flanks. Adult males have a black throat and upper breast; females have a pale throat and black markings on their breast.
The breeding habitat of the black-throated green warbler is coniferous and mixed forests in eastern North America and western Canada and cypress swamps on the southern Atlantic coast. These birds' nests are open cups, which are usually situated close to the trunk of a tree.
These birds migrate to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and southern Florida. One destination is to the Petenes mangroves of the Yucatán. Some birds straggle as far as South America, with the southernmost couple of records coming from Ecuador.
Behavior
Black-throated green warblers forage actively in vegetation, and they sometimes hover (gleaning), or catch insects in flight (hawking). Insects are the main constituents of these birds' diets, although berries will occasionally be consumed.
The song of this bird is a buzzed zee-zee-zee-zooo-zeet or zoo-zee-zoo-zoo-zeet. The call is a sharp tsip.
This bird is vulnerable to nest parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird.
References
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External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to the black-throated green warbler. |
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Wikispecies has information related to: Setophaga virens |
- Black-throated green warbler - Dendroica virens - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
- Black-throated green warbler species account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Black-throated green warbler videos, photos, and sounds at the Internet Bird Collection
- Black-throated green warbler photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)
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- IUCN Red List least concern species
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- Setophaga
- Birds of North America
- Birds of Canada
- Birds of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Birds of the United States
- Native birds of the Eastern United States
- Birds of Appalachia (United States)
- Birds of Mexico
- Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula
- Birds of Central America
- Birds of the Greater Antilles
- Birds of Venezuela
- Birds of Colombia
- Migratory birds (Western Hemisphere)
