Bahama warbler

Bahama warbler
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Parulidae
Genus:	Setophaga
Species:	S. flavescens
Binomial name
Setophaga flavescens (Todd, 1909)
Synonyms
Dendroica flavescens Setophaga dominica flavescens Dendroica dominica flavescens

The Bahama warbler (Setophaga flavescens) is an endangered species of bird in the family Parulidae that is endemic to The Bahamas.

Taxonomy

The taxon was formerly lumped with the yellow-throated warbler (Setophaga dominica), until the Bahama warbler was elevated to full species in 2011, on the distinctions of that the Bahama warbler is restricted to pinewoods, possesses a longer bill, and has small variations in plumage, most obviously in having the yellow of the throat extending down the entire underparts to the legs, versus white on the lower breast and belly in yellow-throated warbler. ^{[2] [3]}

Distribution and habitat

It is endemic to Bahamian pineyards on Grand Bahama, Little Abaco and Great Abaco islands. ^[4]

Behavior

The Bahama warbler forages amidst pine needles in the higher branches of pine forests, occasionally descending to forage in the shrubs of the understory. It also uses its long bill to probe under the bark of tree trunks in search of insects. No other warblers in the region feed along trunks as extensively as the Bahama warbler. ^[5]

References

1. BirdLife International (2020). "Setophaga flavescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T22724802A153768531. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22724802A153768531.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
2. Chesser, R. Terry, Richard C. Banks, F. Keith Barker, Carla Cicero, Jon L. Dunn, Andrew W. Kratter, Irby J. Lovette, Pamela C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, James D. Rising, Douglas F. Stotz, Kevin Winker. 2011. Fifty-second supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds. Auk 128(3):600-613.
3. Hoyo, Josep del (2020). All the Birds of the World. Barcelona: Lynx edicions. p. 798. ISBN   978-84-16728-37-4.
4. "Bahama Warblers on Abaco". 20 February 2021.
5. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: https://ebird.org/caribbean/news/bahama-warbler