Mourning warbler

Mourning warbler
Mourning warbler by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Parulidae
Genus:	Geothlypis
Species:	G. philadelphia
Binomial name
Geothlypis philadelphia (Wilson, 1810)
Range of G. philadelphia      Breeding range     Wintering range
Synonyms
Oporornis philadelphia

Mourning warbler - Summerhill - Filmore Rd Creek, Cayuga County, New York, USA

	Song
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The mourning warbler (Geothlypis philadelphia) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

These 13 cm (5.1 in) long birds have yellow underparts, olive-green upperparts and pink legs. Adult males have a grey hood and a black patch on the throat and breast. Females and immatures are grey-brown on the head with an incomplete eye-ring.

Their breeding habitat is thickets and semi-open areas with dense shrubs across Canada east of the Rockies and the northeastern United States. The nest is an open cup placed on the ground in a well-concealed location under thick shrubs or other vegetation.

These birds migrate to Central America and northern South America.

They forage low in vegetation, sometimes catching insects in flight. These birds mainly eat insects, also some plant material in winter.

The song of this bird is a bright repetitive warble. The call is a sharp chip.

The "mourning" in this bird's name refers to the male's hood, thought to resemble a mourning veil.

References

1. BirdLife International (2012). "Oporornis philadelphia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

External links

• Mourning warbler Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Mourning warbler - Oporornis philadelphia - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
• "Mourning warbler media". Internet Bird Collection.
• Mourning warbler photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University)