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Photo by Rubberhead
Downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, April 2006

Helmitheros vermivorus

[edit] Identification

13cm
Fairly distinct with olive back, yellowish but nonconstrasting underparts, black loral stripe and black crown stripe.

[edit] Distribution

Photo by mrbass111
Turkey Creek Sanctuary, Palm Bay, Florida, September 2009

Breeds in eastern United States from Missouri east to southern New York, Connecticut and southern Massachusetts south along atlantic coast to South Carolina; absent over much of the area east of the Appalachians else south to northern Georgia. Occasionally overshoots northern range in migration.

Rare to casual vagrant in the western United States.
Winters from Mexico to Panama and on the Greater Antilles.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

[edit] Habitat

Thick deciduous woodlands with undergrowth, preferably ravines and hillsides.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects.

[edit] Breeding

The nest is an open cup placed on the ground. The clutch consists of 4 or 5 eggs; both adults feed the young.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

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