Species: Dendroica palmarum

Palm Warbler

Species

Birds

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Parulidae

Genus

Dendroica

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Source:
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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Chipe Playero - paruline à couronne rousse

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Parulidae - Dendroica

Ecology and Life History

Migration

false - false - true - Most winter specimens are from mid-October to late March; spends less time on wintering grounds than do most common West Indian migrant warblers. Arrives in Puerto Rico about November, departs by about April (Raffaele 1983).

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Eats insects, also small fruits; forages on ground and among twigs and cones of conifers on nesting grounds (Terres 1980). In Jamaica in winter, feeds primarily on ground in short grass in open areas (Lack 1976).

Reproduction Comments

Eggs laid May-June. Clutch size 4-5. Incubation 12 days. Young tended by both parents, leave nest at 12 days but cannot fly for several days (young hide in herbage).

Length

Weight

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-12-03

Global Status Last Changed

1996-12-03

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDING: southwestern Mackenzie to northern Saskatchewan and Labrador, south to central Alberta, northeastern Minnesota, central Michigan, southern Ontario, Maine, and Nova Scotia. NON-BREEDING: north-central Texas, Gulf Coast, and South Carolina south to southern Texas, southern Florida; common in Bahamas and Cuba (rare in eastern Greater Antilles); also on islands off Caribbean coasts of Mexico and Central America and rarely on adjacent mainland. Found in very small numbers along coast of Oregon (Gilligan et al. 1994).

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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