Species: Oreothlypis ruficapilla
Nashville Warbler
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Parulidae
Genus
Oreothlypis
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Chipe de Coronilla - paruline à joues grises
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Perching Birds
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Passeriformes - Parulidae - Oreothlypis - in this species (AOU 1983); the three species may constitute a superspecies (AOU 1998).
Ecology and Life History
Migration
false - false - true
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Eats insects; forages from ground to treetop, but mainly low in trees and thickets at edge of forest (Terres 1980). Nonbreeding range: visits flowers, takes small berries and arillate seeds, gleans for small insects (Stiles and Skutch 1989).
Reproduction Comments
Clutch size is 4-5. Incubation, by female, lasts 11-12 days. Young are tended by both parents, leave nest at about 11 days.
Length
12
Weight
9
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-12-03
Global Status Last Changed
1996-12-03
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
BREEDS: southern British Columbia to northwestern Montana, south to southern California and Nevada, also from central Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia, south to southern Manitoba, Minnesota, northeastern Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland. WINTERS: southern Sonora and Durango east to Nuevo Leon, southern Texas and Tamaulipas south through Chiapas and into Guatemala; most common in western Mexico and central highlands, less common on Atlantic slope and unknown from Yucatan Peninsula; regularly south to El Salvador, rare or accidental in Honduras, rarely or casually to Costa Rica and western Panama (Stiles and Skutch 1989), southern California, Florida, and West Indies.