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Photo © by Stanley Jones
City of Alajuela, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica, March, 2006
Basileuterus delattrii

Identification

12.7 cm. Olive-green, yellow underparts including chests and throats, chestnut cap, white superciliary, dark eye-line fading into a chestnut cheek, stout bill, round and stubby wings, and the tail is long, often raised at a high angle and flicked.

Similar species

Rufous-capped Warbler differ in having white on at least part of the underparts and in the color of the rufous of the head.

Distribution

Southern Mexico through Costa Rica, Panama, northern Colombia and western Venezuela.

Taxonomy

Formerly considered a part of Rufous-capped Warbler

Subspecies

Three subspecies are recognized[1].

  • B. r. delattrii:
  • B. r. mesochrysus:
  • B. r. actuosus:
  • Coiba Island (off Pacific coast of Panama)

Habitat

Behaviour

Vocalisation

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Taxonomic proposals of which no B-8 was the proposal that led to split of this species

Recommended Citation

External Links

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