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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.
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 ]
First collected in the Arfak Mountains, the orange-crowned fairywren was described by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1879. [3] Molecular study indicates that it forms a clade with the fairywrens of the genus Malurus. [4] [5] Alternative names for the orange-crowned fairywren include orange-crowned wren, rufous fairywren, and rufous wren-warbler.
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.
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 ...
The purple finch is the state bird of New Hampshire.. This list of birds of New Hampshire includes species documented in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and accepted by New Hampshire Rare Bird Committee (NHRBC) and New Hampshire Audubon (NHA). [1]
Euphonias are members of the genus Euphonia, a group of Neotropical birds in the finch family. They and the chlorophonias comprise the subfamily Euphoniinae.. The genus name is of Greek origin and refers to the birds' pleasing song, meaning "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").
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.