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Orange-crowned warbler Quintana, Texas. The orange-crowned warbler has olive-grey upperparts, yellowish underparts with faint streaking and a thin pointed bill. It has a faint line over each eye and a faint broken eye ring. The orange patch on the crown is usually not visible. Females and immatures are duller in colour than males.
The specific epithet combines the Latin castaneus meaning "chestnut-coloured" and coronatus meaning "crowned". [4] Formerly placed in the genus Tesia, a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011 found that the chestnut-headed tesia was embedded in a clade containing members of the genus Cettia. [5] [6] Three subspecies are recognised: [6]
This means that birds that are considered probable escapees, although they may have been sighted flying free in Kansas, are not included. This list is presented in the taxonomic sequence of the Check-list of North and Middle American Birds , 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the American Ornithological Society (AOS). [ 2 ]
The black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Massachusetts. This list of birds of Massachusetts includes species documented in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have been introduced to North America, three ...
Golden-crowned warbler has 13 geographical races, which fall into three groups. The Central American culicivorus group (known as the stripe-crowned warbler) is essentially as described above, the southwestern cabanisi group (known as Cabanis's warbler) has grey upperparts and a white supercilium, and the aureocapillus group (known as the golden-crowned warbler) of the southeast, which has a ...
Cettia / ˈ tʃ ɛ t iː ə / is a genus of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers") which make up the core of the newly recognized family Cettiidae.They were formerly placed in the Sylviidae, which at that time was a wastebin taxon for the warbler-like Sylvioidea.
The golden-crowned kinglet is generally similar to the related ruby-crowned kinglet. Adults are olive-gray on the upperparts with white underparts, with thin bills and short tails. They have white wing bars, a black stripe through the eyes and a yellow crown surrounded by black. The adult male has an orange patch in the middle of the yellow crown.
Canada goose Ring-necked duck. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.