Bahama Warbler

Setophaga flavescens

Endangered · IUCN Red List

ENEndangeredEndemicInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 9 g

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The Bahama warbler is 13 to 14 cm (5.1 to 5.5 in) long and weighs about 10 g (0.35 oz). Adult males have a gray forehead and forecrown, jet black lores and ear coverts, a long bright white supercilium with black streaks above it, a bright yellow spot in front of the eye, and a white arc below the eye. Their hindcrown, nape, and upperparts are grayish with a touch of brown. Their wing's lesser coverts are gray with black centers and their median and greater coverts are dusky gray with black centers and wide white tips that show as two wing bars. Voice: The male Bahama warbler sings "a series of loud, clear whistled notes, with a ringing quality". Compared to the yellow-throated warbler's song, in the Bahama warbler's song is shorter with fewer syllables, the first syllable's highest frequency is lower pitched, most syllables rise in pitch rather than descending, and the final two descend while those of the yellow-throated rise.

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When to see the Bahama Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Bahama Warbler

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Bahama Warbler

The Bahama warbler is an endangered species of bird in the family Parulidae that is endemic to The Bahamas.

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