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Black-polled Yellowthroat

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Geothlypis speciosa

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[edit] Identification

13 cm Male

  • Browny-olive upperparts
  • Black mask
  • Greyish sides of crown and nape
  • Deep yellow underparts
  • Orange chest,
  • Ochre flanks

Female

  • Lacks mask
  • Olive face
  • Pale eye-ring
  • Pale buff supercilium

Immature male - resembles male with black on face restricted to lores and ear-coverts.
Juvenile - brownish-olive head and upperparts, paler olive-yellow underparts, dark brown legs, black bill.

[edit] Distribution

Mexico.

[edit] Taxonomy

There are 2 subspecies:

  • G. s. speciosa
  • G. s. limnatis

[edit] Habitat

Freshwater lakes and freshwater marshes with reedbeds.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Vocalisation

Call: harsh nasal chreh call. Song - rapid series of chip notes.

[edit] References

  1. BirdLife International

[edit] External Links

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