Vermivora peregrina

• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Common Names

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Description

Family Fringillidae

A Family of seed-eating, small to moderately large passerine birds that have strong , stubby beaks, which in some species can be quite large. They have a bouncing flight, alternating flapping with gliding on closed wings. Most sing well.

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits deciduous forests .

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, tropical lowland evergreen forest, montaine evergreen forests • Maximum Elevation: 2,600 meters • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,657 meters (0 to 11,998 feet).[1]

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.1Forest - Boreal 1.4Forest - Temperate

Biology

Diet

Primarily: Insects

Lesser Quantities of: Nectar Fruit

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: Ground-low nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 4-7
• Length of Incubation : 11-12(?) days

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

Orange Crowned Warbler, Warbling Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo

Members of the genus Vermivora

There are approximately 27 species in this genus:

V. bachmanii (Bachman's Wood Warbler) · V. celata (Rocky Mountain Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata celata (Rocky Mountain Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata lutescens (Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata orestera (Rocky Mountain Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata sordida (Dusky Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata ssp · V. chrysoptera (Golden-Winged Swamp Warbler) · V. chrysoptera x · V. chysoptera · V. crissalis (Colima Warbler) · V. crysoptera · V. gutteralis (Flame-Throated Warbler) · V. gutturalis · V. lawrencei · V. lawrencii (Lawrence's Warbler) · V. leucobronchialis (Brewster's Warbler) · V. luciae (Lucy's Warbler) · V. peregrina (Tennessee Swamp Warbler) · V. pinus (Blue-Winged Yellow Warbler) · V. pinus x · V. ruficapilla (Nashville Swamp Warbler) · V. ruficapilla gutturalis (Calaveras Warbler) · V. ruficapilla ridgwayi (Nashville Warbler) · V. ruficapilla ruficapilla (Nashville Swamp Warbler) · V. superciliosa (Crescent-Chested Warbler) · V. virginiae (Virginia's Warbler)

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Further Reading

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• A systematic list of the birds of California / by Joseph Grinnell. Hollywood: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1912. ENG url p. 19.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 467.
• Annals and magazine of natural history: including zoology, botany and geology London. url p. 484.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- ENG url p. 270, p. 457, p. 57.
• Arkiv för zoologi / utgivet af K. Svenska vetenskaps-akademien. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & soner, 1903-1974. SWE url p. 46.
• Atlas of avian hematology / Alfred M. Lucas, Casimir Jamroz. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1961. ENG url p. 271.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C., USA. 79.
• Bird guide: land birds east of the Rockies from parrots to bluebirds / by Chester A. Reed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1916, c1909. ENG url p. 149.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Birds of California; an introduction to more than three hundred common birds of the state and adjacent islands, with a supplementary list of rare migrants, accidental visitants, and hypothetical subspecies, by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock with ten fullpag Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. ENG url p. 567.
• Birds of New York / by Elon Howard Eaton. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910-1914. ENG url p. 393.
• Birds of Volcán de Chiriquí, Panama. [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. ENG url p. 557.
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• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 94.
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• Catalogue of a collection of birds from Costa Rica, by John Farwell Ferry. Chicago, 1910. ENG url p. 275.
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• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 240.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 282.
• Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. ENG url p. 140, p. 314.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. ENG url p. 197.
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• Michigan bird life: a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation t by Walter Bradford Barrows. Lansing: Michigan Agricultural College, 1912. ENG url p. 588.
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Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 15, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 25 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Bird Studies Canada: Marsh Monitoring Program - Birds
• Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 1981-1985
• Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 2001-2005
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Ontario Nest Records
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Bird Collection
• EMAN Provider: PIROP (Shipboard Surveys)
• Field Museum: Birds specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
• Royal Ontario Museum: Bird specimens
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara Musem of Natural History
• UCLA-Dickey Bird Collection (UCLA-Dickey): Bird specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNAV/Coleccion Nacional de Aves
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3850353
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178855
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13526893
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178855
• IUCN ID: 53637
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBX01040
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13580

Footnotes

1. Mean = 270.810 meters (888.484 feet), Standard Deviation = 264.320 based on 18,409 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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