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| - | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Yellow Warbler]]'''</div> | + | <div style="{{psubheader}}">Featured Article: '''[[Black-capped Kingfisher]]'''</div> |
| - | [[Image:Yellow_Warbler.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Photo by {{user|kegressy|kegressy}} <br />Point Pelee, Ontario, [[Canada]] <br />Male]] | + | [[Image:Black-capped_Kingfisher.jpg|thumb|220px|left|Photo by {{user|nothinghill|nothinghill}}]] |
| - | ;[[:Category:Dendroica|Dendroica]] petechia | + | ==Identification== |
| | + | Black head and rufous belly and flanks separated by white throat and collar. Bill bright red, purple-black upperparts.<br /> |
| | + | Juveniles are duller, have a buffy collar, dusky scaling on breast and a brownish-orange bill. |
| | + | ====Flight==== |
| | + | In flight shows conspicuous white patch at base of primaries. |
| | + | ==Distribution== |
| | + | Breeds in [[India]]n subcontinent, [[Myanmar]], [[China]] and [[Korea]]. <br /> |
| | + | Winters throughout southeast [[Asia]] to [[Sumatra]], [[Borneo]], [[Sulawesi]] and the [[Philippines]].<br /> |
| | + | Uncommon winter visitor, and passage migrant in [[Singapore]]. |
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| - | Breeds within [[North America]] from [[Alaska]] east across [[Canada]] to [[Newfoundland]] and south to southern [[California]], northern [[Oklahoma]], and northern [[:Category:Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]; local in southern [[Florida]]; these subspecies which belong to the ''aestiva'' group of subspecies which winters in tropics. Additionally found in a number of largely non-migratory subspecies in the [[Caribbean]] (the ''petechia'' = "golden warbler" group), and in [[Mexico]], [[Central America]] and northern [[South America]] | + | '''[''[[Black-capped Kingfisher|Read More...]]'']''' |
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| - | '''[''[[Yellow Warbler|Read More...]]'']''' | + | |
Revision as of 08:33, 1 May 2012
Identification
Black head and rufous belly and flanks separated by white throat and collar. Bill bright red, purple-black upperparts.
Juveniles are duller, have a buffy collar, dusky scaling on breast and a brownish-orange bill.
Flight
In flight shows conspicuous white patch at base of primaries.
Distribution
Breeds in Indian subcontinent, Myanmar, China and Korea.
Winters throughout southeast Asia to Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines.
Uncommon winter visitor, and passage migrant in Singapore.
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