Olive-capped warbler

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Olive-capped warbler
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus: Setophaga
Species:
S. pityophila
Binomial name
Setophaga pityophila
(Gundlach, 1858)
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Synonyms

Dendroica pityophila

The olive-capped warbler (Setophaga pityophila) is a species of New World warbler that is native to the western and eastern ends of Cuba as well as Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas. Its natural habitat is pine forests and occasionally adjacent mixed forests.

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Dendroica pityophila". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.

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