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Vermivora chrysoptera

(Golden Winged Warbler)

Overview

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Near Threatened

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Czech:

Lesn

Common Names in Danish:

Gulvinget Sanger

Common Names in Dutch:

Geelvleugelzanger

Common Names in English:

Golden Winged Warbler, blue golden-winged warbler, golden-winged flycatcher, golden-winged swamp warbler, Golden-winged Warbler

Common Names in Estonian:

Kuldtiib-S

Common Names in Finnish:

Kultasiipikerttuli

Common Names in French:

Fauvette , Paruline , paruline à ailes dorées, Paruline aile-d'or, paruline à ailes dorées

Common Names in German:

Goldfl, Goldflügel-Waldsänger, Goldflügelraupenfresser

Common Names in Haitian Creole French:

Ti Tchit Z

Common Names in Icelandic:

Gullskr

Common Names in Italian:

Beccavermi alidorate

Common Names in Japanese:

Kimbaneamerikamushikui, キンバネアメリカムシクイ

Common Names in Latin:

Helminthophila chrysoptera

Common Names in Lithuanian:

Auksasparne Vik

Common Names in Norwegian:

Gullvingeparula

Common Names in Polish:

Las

Common Names in Slovenian:

Zlatoperuti Gosenicar

Common Names in Spanish:

Bijirita Alidorada, Chipe ala dorada, Chipe De Alas Doradas, Reinita Aligualda

Common Names in Spanish (Costa Rica):

Reinita Alidorada

Common Names in Spanish (Cuba):

Bijirita Alidorada

Common Names in Spanish (Dominican Republic):

Cigu

Common Names in Spanish (Honduras):

Chipe Alidorada

Common Names in Spanish (Mexico):

Chipe Ala Dorada

Common Names in Spanish (Nicaragua):

Reinita Alidorada

Common Names in Spanish (Venezuela):

Reinita Alidorada

Common Names in Swedish:

Guldvingad Skogss, Gulvingad skogssångare

Common Names in Turkish:

Altin Kanatli

Common Names in Welsh:

Telor Asgell Aur

Description

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Physical Description

Adult : Head : Crown: yellow Face : Eyebrow Line : white Eyeline: black patch Malar : white Neck: Throat : black Body: Flanks: white with gray wash Underparts: white Upperparts: pearl gray Tail: blackish.

Color:

Grayish above; white below; yellow crown and wing patches; throat and ear patch black bordered by white in males, gray in females); white spots on the underside of the tail.

Size/Age/Growth

About 4.75 to 5 inches long, with a wingspan of 7.75 to 8.25 inches. Adults weigh about 0.3 ounces .

Habitat

The Golden-winged Warbler uses primarily habitats that are in early successional areas such as shrubby vegetation found along streams , wet fields with shrubby vegetation, power line right-of-ways, and some cut-over areas.

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands, montaine evergreen forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 3,000 meters • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,479 meters (0 to 14,695 feet).[1]

Ecology: Breeds in open deciduous woodland, secondary growth , brushy pastures and bogs2, apparently favouring a particular stage in woodland succession3. When the habitat passes this stage, birds move on3. All kinds of woodland and scrub are used during migration, and birds generally winter in secondary growth forest or forest edge with a good understorey3. Most records come from below 2,000 m , and right down to sea-level3. The well-hidden nest is usually on or close to the ground , and breeding takes place in May and June3.

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List of Habitats:

Biology

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Diet

The diet consists of insects and spiders found on leaves and branches. It forages by moving among the branches gathering the food that it finds. It also searches clusters of dead leaves to find the insects hiding within.

Primarily: Insects

Reproduction

The breeding season begins in mid-May and extends to late June. The nest is commonly on the ground , hidden among the grass or against the trunk of a tree . Rarely, the nest is woven among the vegetation, and then it is only placed a few inches above the ground. The nest is cup-shaped and built out of grasses and strips of grapevine bark . The female lays 4-7 (usually 4-5) eggs that she incubates for 10 days. The young are altricial and fledge 9-10 days after hatching .

Migration

Migratory

The song of this species is a low, soft, buzzing song that sounds like be-bzz-bzz-bzz.

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Vermivora chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

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In the East, the most similar species is the Blue-winged Warbler, although many warblers are similar in size and body shape. The Blue-winged Warbler is mostly yellow, with slate-gray wings and tail, and has two wing bars and a black eye stripe. The song of the Blue-winged Warbler is similar to the Golden-wing Warbler's but shorter. Its low, soft, buzzing song sounds like be-bzz. The Blue-winged Warbler and Golden-winged Warbler interbreed and produce two hybrids called the Brewster's Warbler and Lawrence's Warbler. The Brewster's Warbler - the more common of the two hybrids - has the black eye stripe, a yellow crown, a variety of yellow throughout the body, grayish wings and tail, and two yellowish wing bars. The Lawrence's Warbler has the black ear patch and throat, variable yellow throughout the body, grayish wings and tail, and two yellowish wing bars.

The gray and white plumage and black throat of the Golden-winged warbler is somewhat reminiscent of a chickadee but note the yellow forehead and wing patch of the warbler. The Blue-winged Warbler occassionally hybridizes with the Golden-winged Warbler to produce offspring with characteristics of both parents. Some have mostly white underparts but the face pattern of the Blue-winged Warbler (Brewster's Warbler), while some have the yellow plumage of the Blue-winged but the face pattern of the Golden-winged (Lawrence's Warbler). These hybrids sometimes backcross with Blue-winged or Golden-winged to produce offspring more similar to Blue-winged or Golden-winged.

Members of the genus Vermivora

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species and subspecies in this genus:

V. bachmanii (Bachman's Wood Warbler) · V. celata (Orange Crowned Warbler) · V. celata celata (Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata lutescens (Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata orestera (Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. celata sordida (Dusky Orange-Crowned Warbler) · V. chrysoptera (Golden Winged Warbler) · V. crissalis (Colima Warbler) · V. cyanoptera (Blue-Winged Warbler) · V. gutteralis (Flame-Throated Warbler) · V. lawrencii (Lawrence's Warbler) · V. leucobronchialis (Brewster's Warbler) · V. luciae (Desert Warbler) · V. peregrina (Tennessee Swamp Warbler) · V. pinus (Blue Winged Warbler) · 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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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 06, 2008:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Mean = 21.650 meters (71.030 feet), Standard Deviation = 189.760 based on 194,252 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
  2. BirdLife International 2008. Vermivora chrysoptera. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/14/2012