Species: Dendroica nigrescens

Black-throated Gray Warbler
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Aves

    Order

    Passeriformes

    Family

    Parulidae

    Genus

    Dendroica

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    Chipe Negrogris - Paruline grise
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Parulidae - Dendroica
    Short General Description
    A small bird (wood warbler).
    Migration
    false - false - true - Winters north of the Isthmus; from California lowlands and southern Arizona through western and central Mexico, from southern Baja, southern Sonora and Coahuila south to Oaxaca (Dunn and Garrett 1997).
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Food Comments
    Feeds mainly on insects (moths, butterflies, beetles, ants, etc.); may also eat leaf galls and a few spiders. Forages among leaves in bushes and trees. May forage high in trees or lower in trees and bushes. In southwestern Oregon and northwestern California use oak trees in spring for foraging on small green caterpillars (Bowles 1902).
    Reproduction Comments
    Clutch size is three to five (usually four). Incubation is done by female. Young are tended by both parents (Harrison 1978).
    Ecology Comments
    Seen singly or in pairs; may be seen in small groups while migrating.
    Length
    13
    Weight
    9
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    1996-12-03
    Global Status Last Changed
    1996-12-03
    Other Status

    LC - Least concern

    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    BREEDING: southwestern British Columbia, western Washington, central Oregon, southwestern Idaho, northern Utah, southwestern Wyoming, northwestern and central Colorado, south in mountains to Arizona, eastern and southern New Mexico, northern Baja California, and northeastern Sonora, Mexico (AOU 1983, Guzy and Lowther 1997). Centers of abundance based on BBS data are in eastern Utah, southeastern Arizona, the Sierra Nevada, northwestern California, western Oregon, western Washington, and southwestern British Columbia (Sauer et al. 1997). NON-BREEDING: primarily in Baja California Sur and Pacific Slope and interior of Snora, Durango, Zacatecas, and Coahuila south to central Oaxaca. In small numbers in California and along Gulf Coast of U.S. (Guzy and Lowther 1997).
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