Chestnut-capped Warbler - BirdForum Opus

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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:

• Southern Mexico (southeast Chiapas) to highlands of northern Costa Rica

• B. r. mesochrysus:

• Southwest Costa Rica to Panama, northern Colombia and western Venezuela

• B. r. actuosus:

• Coiba Island (off Pacific coast of Panama)

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

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Chestnut-capped Warbler. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Chestnut-capped_Warbler

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