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Male
Photo by Fernando Cerra
South Padre Island, Texas, during Spring migration, 2004

Dendroica castanea

[edit] Identification

4.7-5.2"
Basic/immature (Sep-Nov): Narrow pale lemon supercilium and brighter narrow eye-crescents; underparts dirty pale buff to pale lemon, often with pinkish-cinnamon wash on flanks.

Alt Male (April-June): Face black with chestnut crown and throat, pale bFemale
uff sides of neck. Underparts dirty pale buff, chestnut on sides and flanks.

[edit] Distribution

Female
Photo by S_McNeil
Gamboa Rainforest Resort, Panama, January 2007

Breeds North America from southern [[Northwest Territories east and south to eastern Quebec and western Newfoundland south to northern Minnesota and Michigan, northern New York, northern Vermont and New Hampshire and most of Maine.

Winters Panama to Venezuela. In migration found across the eastern United States. Rare vagrant in the western United States.

Accidental vagrant to Greenland (1 record) and Great Britain (1 record).

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Coniferous forests in boreal regions.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects and spiders, supplemented by winter fruit.

[edit] Breeding

The nest is placed in a dense spruce tree and the open cup is formed from twigs and bark, held together with spider's web lichen and plant down. It is lined with pine needles, hair and moss etc. The clutch normally consists of 4-7 eggs, which are white or cream with dark spots.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Allaboutbirds

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