RED-FACED WARBLER

The 'Red-faced Warbler' (''Cardellina rubrifrons'') is a species of New World warbler.
Mature Red-faced Warblers are small birds, 14 cm (5½ inches) long. They are light gray on top with a white rump and a white underside. The face, neck, and upper breast are all bright red, while the crown and sides of the head are black. The spot on the back of the head where the black crown and gray back meet is sometimes speckled gray, or sometimes plain white. They also have a quirky habit of flicking their tail sideways while feeding.
Red-faced Warblers are locally common in mountain forests of conifers, spruce, and oak 2,000-3,000 m (6,500 to 9,000 feet) above sea level. In summer they frequent northern Mexico and range up into the states of Arizona and New Mexico–(the Madrean sky islands). During the winter months they migrate south into southern Mexico and the Central American nations of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. They are permanent residents of the central and southern mountains of western Mexico, the range called Sierra Madre Occidental.
Nests are a small cup constructed from leaves, grass, and pine needles. The nest will be hidden amongst the debris on the forest floor, buried in the ground, sheltered under a shrub, log, or rock. The female will lay 3 to 5 eggs, colored white and spotted with brown. Incubation and nestling periods average 12 days each.

Contents

Taxonomy

External links

References

Further reading

Book

Articles

Taxonomy

''Cardellina'' is merged by some authors into ''Wilsonia'' .

External links

★ Red-faced Warbler photo; Article firefly forest

★ Stamps (for El Salvador)

★ Red-faced Warbler photo gallery VIREO

★ Red-faced Warbler videos on the Internet Bird Collection

References

★ Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

★ Curson, J., Quinn, D. & Beadle, D. (1994). ''New World Warblers''. Helm. ISBN 0-7136-3932-6

Further reading

Book

★ Martin, T. E., and P. M. Barber. 1995. ''Red-faced Warbler (Cardellina rubrifrons)''. In ''The Birds of North America'', No. 152 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C.

Articles

★ Barber PM, Martin TE & Smith KG. (1998). ''Pair interactions in red-faced warblers''. Condor. vol '100', no 3. p. 512-518.

★ Barber PM, Martin TE & Smith KG. (1998). ''Pair interactions in Red-faced Warblers''. Condor. vol '100', no 3. p. 512-518.

★ Dobbs RC & Martin TE. (1998). ''Variation in foraging behavior among nesting stages of female Red-faced Warblers''. Condor. vol '100', no 4. p. 741-745.

★ Dobbs RC & Martin TR. (1998). ''Variation of foraging behavior among nesting stages of female Red-faced Warblers''. Condor. vol '100', no 4. p. 741-745.

★ Hellebuyck V. (1983). ''3 New Specimen Records of Birds for El-Salvador''. Wilson Bulletin. vol '95', no 4. p. 662-664.

★ Lovette IJ & Hochachka WM. (2006). ''Simultaneous effects of phylogenetic niche conservatism and competition on avian community structure''. Ecology. p. S) S14-S28, JUL 2006.

★ Martin TE. (1996). ''Fitness costs of resource overlap among coexisting bird species''. Nature. vol '380', no 6572. p. 338-340.

★ Martin TE. (1998). ''Are microhabitat preferences of coexisting species under selection and adaptive?''. Ecology. vol '79', no 2. p. 656-670.

★ Martin TE & Barber PM. (1995). ''Red-faced Warbler Cardellina rubrifrons''. Birds of North America. vol '0', no 152. p. 1-16.

★ Martin TE, Scott J & Menge C. (2000). ''Nest predation increases with parental activity: Separating nest site and parental activity effects''. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Series B. vol '267', no 1459. p. 2287-2293.

★ McCaskie G. (1970). ''A Red-Faced Warbler Reaches California''. California Birds. vol '1', no 4. p. 145-146.

★ Palacios MG & Martin TE. (2006). ''Incubation period and immune function: a comparative field study among coexisting birds''. Oecologia. vol '146', no 4. p. 505-512.

★ Patricia MB, Thomas EM & Kimberly GS. (1998). ''Pair interactions in Red-faced Warblers''. The Condor. vol '100', no 3. p. 512.

★ Robert CD & Thomas EM. (1998). ''Variation in foraging behavior among nesting stages of female Red-faced Warblers''. The Condor. vol '100', no 4. p. 741.

★ Rusterholz KA. (1981). ''Competition and the Structure of an Avian Foraging Guild''. American Naturalist. vol '118', no 2. p. 173-190.