Hooded Warbler

Hooded Warbler

Taxobox
name = Hooded Warbler


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Adult male
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Parulidae
genus = "Wilsonia"
species = "W. citrina"
binomial = "Wilsonia citrina"
binomial_authority = (Boddaert, 1783)

The Hooded Warbler, "Wilsonia citrina", is a New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America and across the eastern USA and into southernmost Canada, (Ontario). It is migratory, wintering in Central America and the West Indies. Hooded Warblers are very rare vagrants to western Europe.

The Hooded Warbler has a plain olive/green-brown back, and yellow underparts. Their outer rectrices have whitish vanes. Males have black hoods which surround their yellow faces; the female has an olive-green cap which does not extend to the forehead, ears and throat instead. Males attain their hood at about 9-12 months of age; younger birds are essentially identical to (and easily confused with) females [Burns (1898)] . The song is a series of musical notes which sound like: "wheeta wheeta whee-tee-oh". The call of these birds is a loud "chip".

These birds feed on insects, which are often found in low vegetation or caught by flycatching. Hooded Warblers' breeding habitats are broadleaved woodlands with dense undergrowth. These birds nest in low areas of a bush, laying 3-5 eggs in a cup-shaped nest. Hooded Warblers are often the victims of brood parisitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird, especially where the Hooded Warblers' forest habitats are fragmented.

Footnotes

References

*|year=2004|id=53690|title=Wilsonia citrina|downloaded=12 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* (1989): Hooded Warbler. "Wilson Bull." 10(5): 70. [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/DJVU/v010n05/P0070-P0070.djvu DjVu fulltext] [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v010n05/p0070-p0070.pdf PDF fulltext]
* (1994): "New World Warblers". Christopher Helm, London. ISBN 0-7136-3932-6

External links

* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Hooded_Warbler.html Hooded Warbler Species Account] - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
* [http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i6840id.html Hooded Warbler - "Wilsonia citrina"] - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
* [http://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/hooded_warbler_info.htm Hooded Warbler Information] - South Dakota Birds and Birding
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/19906700.htm Stamps] (for Cuba, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) with RangeMap
* [http://ibc.hbw.com/ibc/phtml/especie.phtml?idEspecie=9012 Hooded Warbler videos] on the Internet Bird Collection
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=hooded+warbler&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Hooded Warbler photo gallery] VIREO [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/species_image.php?species=Wilsonia+citrina Photo-High Res--(Close-up)]


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