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Location: Lost Maples State Natural Area, Edwards Plateau, central Texas

Dendroica chrysoparia

[edit] Identification

Yellow cheek, divided by a black eye-line. No yellow on underparts. Male: black above with black bib, crown and black-streaked sides. White belly and 2 white wing-bars. Female and imm. male: duller with dark streaks on olive upperparts, chin white or yellowish, with sides of throat streaked. Imm. female has less black on underparts.

[edit] Similar Species

No yellow on underparts, distinguishing it from the similar Black-throated Green Warbler.

[edit] Distribution

ENDANGERED - Endemic to the Edwards Plateau in the Central Texas Hill Country. Winters in the highlands of Southern Mexico south to Nicaragua.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Mixed juniper-cedar-oak woodland on the Edwards Plateau in the Texas Hill Country.

[edit] Behaviour

Diet is insectivorous. Song - 5 buzzy notes, ending on a high note. Call note: teck.

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