Wilsonia canadensis

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Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Found in floodplain forests .

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

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[1]

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

Biology

Diet

Primarily:

Insects

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Woodland
• Nest Location: Ground-low nesting
• Nest Type: Open-cup
• Clutch Size: 3-5

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

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

Similar Species

Magnolia Warbler

Members of the genus Wilsonia

There are approximately 9 species in this genus:

W. brevivittella · W. canadensis (Canadian Flycatching Warbler) · W. citrina (Hooded Flycatching Warbler) · W. pusilla (Wilson's Black-Capped Flycatching Warbler) · W. pusilla chryseola · W. pusilla pileolata (Wilson's Warbler) · W. pusilla pusilla (Wilson's Black-Capped Flycatching Warbler) · W. saffordi · W. wilsoni

More Info

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Further Reading

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• A guide to the birds of New England and eastern New York; containing a key for each season and short descriptions of over 250 species, with particular reference to their appearance in the field, by Ralph Huffmann...with four full page plates by Louis Agas BostonHoughton, Mifflin and company1904. ENG url p. 100.
• A history of the birds of Colorado, by William Lutley Sclater London, Witherby & co., 1912. ENG url p. 470, p. 533.
• A list of the birds of New Hampshire. By Glover M. Allen. Manchester, N.H., Nature Study press, 1903. ENG url p. 171, p. 221.
• Abstract of proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia]Delaware Valley Ornithological Club. ENG url p. 11, p. 23, p. 42.
• 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 of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- ENG url p. 587, p. 611.
• Arkiv för zoologi / utgivet af K. Svenska vetenskaps-akademien. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & soner, 1903-1974. SWE url p. 48.
• Asteroid notes. Northfield, Minn, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1934-1950. ENG url p. 71.
• 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. 177.
• 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 America; editor-in-chief, T. Gilbert Pearson; consulting editor, John Burroughs; artists, R.I. Brasher, R. Bruce Horsfall [and] Henry Thurston. New York, The University Society, 1923. ENG url p. 166.
• Birds of New York / by Elon Howard Eaton. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1910-1914. ENG url p. 462, p. 648, p. 718.
• Birds of Volcán de Chiriquí, Panama. [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1958. ENG url p. 560.
• Birds of Washington and vicinity, including adjacent parts of Maryland and Virginia, by Mrs. L. W. Maynard, with introduction by Florence A. Merriam Washington, D. C., 1898. ENG url p. 203.
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• Birds of the Marshall Field Peruvian Expedition, 1922-1923, by John T. Zimmer Chicago, 1930. ENG url p. 425.
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• Birds of the Sierra Macarena, eastern Colombia. Chicago, Chicago Natural History Museum, 1962. ENG url p. 107.
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• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. ENG url p. 71.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 299.
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Notes

Contributors

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• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 12, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 12, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• 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: 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
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
• 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: 3850417
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178977
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13779652
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178977
• IUCN ID: 53692
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBX16030
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13607

Footnotes

1. Mean = 261.270 meters (857.185 feet), Standard Deviation = 233.370 based on 8,207 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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