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Location: Mexico

Geothlypis poliocephala

Identification

13.5cm-14.5cm. Gray head with black lores and white eye-crescents (in some locales faint). Bright yellow underparts, olive back and wings. Pinkish, broad bill with blackish culmen black eye, pink legs.

Similar Species

The gray-crowned has a morph typical of the other Yellowthroats, but without the black face band of the Common Yellowthroat, and with a stouter and deeper bill than the Black-polled Yellowthroat

Distribution

In Mexico along the coasts from a latitude south of the tip of Baja California with an isolated patch in the vicinity of Guadalajara, including all of the Yucatan penisula. The coastal ranges, separate in the north, coalesce at the waist of Mexico in southern Oaxaca. Distribution continues throughout southern Central America.

Taxonomy

Sometimes placed in genus Chamaethlypis^[1]

Habitat

Fields and pastures, scrub and brush. Not found in marshes, in contrast to the Common Yellowthroat.

Behaviour

A very active little bird typical of wood-warblers, constantly in movement gleaning insects from the leaves and twigs of dense bushes.

References

1. Howell & Webb, "A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and northern Central America" Oxford University Press, 1999.

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