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[[Image:Mourning_Warbler.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Marcel Gauthier]] | [[Image:Mourning_Warbler.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Marcel Gauthier]] | ||
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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
Photographed at Lachute, QC, Canada . | Photographed at Lachute, QC, Canada . | ||
| + | Similar to Connecticut and MacGillivray's Warblers but with no eye-ring in males. Head and chest gray with black lores, hevy black mottling on throat and chest. Female: head and chest gray, often with narrow, broken whitish to pale lemon eyering, throat pale gray to pale lemon. | ||
| + | ==Distribution== | ||
| + | Breeds mainly in Northeast North America but also in much of Canada at the same latitude as far west as British Columbia. Winters from southern Central America to Ecuador and Venezuela. | ||
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| + | ==Behaviour== | ||
| + | Song short and rhythmic with rich, churring quality churree churree churree turi turi last phrases lower, weaker, shorter. Call a dry, flat, husky pwich. | ||
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==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?si=Oporornis+philadelphia&perpage=12&sort=1&cat=all&ppuser=&[email protected]&password=&x=8&y=9 View more images of Mourning Warbler in the gallery] | *[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?si=Oporornis+philadelphia&perpage=12&sort=1&cat=all&ppuser=&[email protected]&password=&x=8&y=9 View more images of Mourning Warbler in the gallery] | ||
[[Category:Birds]] | [[Category:Birds]] | ||
Revision as of 17:38, 7 June 2007
- Oporornis philadelphia
Identification
Photographed at Lachute, QC, Canada . Similar to Connecticut and MacGillivray's Warblers but with no eye-ring in males. Head and chest gray with black lores, hevy black mottling on throat and chest. Female: head and chest gray, often with narrow, broken whitish to pale lemon eyering, throat pale gray to pale lemon.
Distribution
Breeds mainly in Northeast North America but also in much of Canada at the same latitude as far west as British Columbia. Winters from southern Central America to Ecuador and Venezuela.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Behaviour
Song short and rhythmic with rich, churring quality churree churree churree turi turi last phrases lower, weaker, shorter. Call a dry, flat, husky pwich.
