Kentucky Warbler

Olive green above and bright yellow below, this warbler has distinctive yellow and black facial markings. Length: 13 cm.; weight: 13-14 g. Audio 2 (M. Oberle). Breeds in moist deciduous forests of the eastern USA, and winters from lowland Mexico south to northwestern Venezuela. Rare in winter in thick underbrush in coastal, dry and wet forests of Puerto Rico (e.g. 9 March 1992, Maricao State Forest; 30 October 1998, Barrio Dominguito, Arecibo; 21 October 2000, Ciales).

TAXONOMY: PASSERIFORMES; PARULIDAE


Photo: G. Beaton

References

Arendt, W.J. 1992. Status of North American migrant landbirds in the Caribbean region: a summary. Pp. 143-171 in Ecology and conservation of neotropical migrant landbirds (J.M. Hagan III and D.W. Johnston, eds.) Smithsonian Instit. Press, Washington, D.C.

Bent, A.C. 1953. Life histories of North American wood warblers. Smithsonian Instit. U.S. National Museum Bull. 203. (Reprinted by Dover Press, NY, 1963).

Curson, J., D. Quinn, and D. Beadle. 1994. Warblers of the Americas: an identification guide. Houghton Mifflin, NY.

Dunn, J. and K. Garrett. 1997. A field guide to warblers of North America. Houghton Mifflin, NY.

Ehrlich, P.R., D.S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye. 1988. The birderÆs handbook: a field guide to the natural history of North American birds. Simon and Schuster/ Fireside, NY.

McDonald, M. V. 1998. Kentucky Warbler (Oporornis formosus). No. 324 in The birds of North America (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. A guide to the birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Princeton.

Raffaele, H.A. 1989. Una guía a las aves de Puerto Rico y las Islas Vírgenes. Publishing Resources, Inc., Santurce, PR.

Raffaele, H.A., J.W. Wiley, O.H. Garrido, A.R. Keith, and J.I. Raffaele. 1998. Guide to the birds of the West Indies. Princeton.

Kentucky Warbler, Spanish text

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