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Geothlypis speciosa

[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