Reinita Caridorada

Setophaga chrysoparia

Se reproduce exclusivamente en bosques mixtos de enebro y encino en el centro de Texas. Rara vez se le ve en migración. El macho tiene el píleo, la garganta y el dorso de color negro azabache; la cara amarilla brillante con una línea negra a través del ojo. Dos barras alares blancas; partes inferiores blancas con estrías negras a los lados. La hembra y los inmaduros son más apagados, con la garganta pálida, el dorso y el píleo verde oliva; similar a la reinita verde de garganta negra, pero nótese la línea oscura más distinta a través del ojo y la falta de zona subcaudal amarilla. Inverna en bosques montanos de pino-encino en México y Centroamérica. Su canto variable incluye varios trinos y zumbidos a diferentes tonos.

Identificación

The golden-cheeked warbler is very striking due to its bright yellow cheeks that are contrasted by its black throat and back. It is also identified by its unique buzzing song emerging from the wooded canyons where it breeds. Golden-cheeked warblers breed in 33 counties in central Texas and are dependent on ashe juniper (blueberry juniper or cedar) for their fine bark strips used as nesting material.

Taxonomía

Género: Setophaga; familia: Parulidae; orden: Passeriformes.

Nombre científico
Setophaga chrysoparia
Autoridad
(Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1860)
Orden
Passeriformes
Familia
Parulidae
Género
Setophaga

Distribución y hábitat

The golden-cheeked warbler can be found in numerous state parks within Texas. These parks include Colorado Bend State Park (SP), Dinosaur Valley SP, Garner SP, Guadalupe River SP, Honey Creek State Natural Area (SNA), Hill Country SNA, Kerr Management Area, Longhorn Cavern SNA, Lost Maples SNA, Meridian SP, Pedernales Falls SP, Possum Kingdom SP, and South Llano River SP.<p>The golden-cheeked warbler is endemic to Texas and Mexico. Their habitat can range from moist, to dry areas around central and southern Texas. The nesting habitat in the further moist realms can be discovered in tall, closed canopy, compressed, mature stands of ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei) trees along with Texas, shin, live, lacey, and post oak trees. In the drier spheres of Texas, golden-cheeked warblers can be found in upland juniper-oak woodlands off of flat topography. They use ashe juniper bark and spider webs to build their nests. Females lay three to four eggs. When migration and winter hits the habitat stays relatively similar: a variety of short-lived evergreen forests with pines between 3,300 and 8,300 feet.<p>Golden-cheeked warblers will only remain in Texas for the breeding season, from March to June. They will migrate with other songbird species along Mexico's Sierra Madre Oriental. By the first week of March, the warblers will return to Texas to breed. During the winter season (November–February), warblers will travel to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico.

Área de cría
NA : sc Texas (sc USA)
Área no reproductiva
Mexico to Nicaragua
Migración
Migrantes completos

Comportamiento

Patrón migratorio: Migrantes completos.

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional: en declive.

Tendencia poblacional
en declive

Fotos

Distribución

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