Fan-tailed Warbler

What the Fan-tailed Warbler sounds like

Recorded by Oliver Komar · Call · Finca Familia Barrientos, San Antonio de Oriente, Departamento de Francisco Morazán, Honduras · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Fan-tailed Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Fan-tailed Warbler

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.

About the Fan-tailed Warbler

The fan-tailed warbler is a New World warbler in the genus Basileuterus that lives along the Pacific slope from northern Mexico to Nicaragua. Vagrant records exist for Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. It is yellow on its throat and underparts with a tawny wash on its chest. The head is gray with a black-framed yellow crown and white around the eyes. The undertail coverlets are white. It is 5.8-6.3 in (14.5–16 cm) long and has a pleasant, upslurred song. Fan-tailed warblers live in and at the edge of evergreen and semideciduous forest, especially near ravines. They eat insects, and are seen hopping around on either the forest floor or close to it. They are found alone or in pairs.

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Easily confused with

Black-eared WarblerBasileuterus melanotisThe black-eared warbler measures 13 cm (5.1 in) in length. Black-cheeked WarblerBasileuterus melanogenysThe black-cheeked warbler is a New World warbler, resident breeding bird endemic to the Talamancan montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. Three-banded WarblerBasileuterus trifasciatusThe three-banded warbler is a species of bird in the family Parulidae.