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CERRILLOS HILLS HISTORIC PARK

Wood Warblers





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American Redstart - rare

Setophaga ruticilla

LS reports: recorded.

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Black-throated Gray Warbler - rare

Dendroica nigrescens

LS reports: recorded.

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Common Yellowthroat - not present

Geothlypis trichas

Size: 5" - Wood warbler

Male: olive above; throat, chest yellow; broad white line above black mask.

Female: head olive.

Song rollicking.

LS reports: recorded.

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MacGillivray's Warbler - confirmed presence, Spring & Fall

Oporornis tolmiei

Size: 5" - Wood warbler

Male: olive above; yellow below; head slate gray; throat scaled back.

Female: white throat; eye ring white, incomplete; legs pink.


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Nashville Warbler - rare

Vermivora ruficapilla

Size: 4.25" - Wood warbler

Back, wings, tail olive green; no wing bars; throat, underparts clear unstriped yellow; most of head gray with white eye ring.


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Northern Waterthrush - rare

Seiurus noveboracensis

LS reports: recorded.

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Orange-crowned Warbler - confirmed presence, Fall, riparian areas

Vermivora celata

Size: 5" - Wood warbler

Very plain. Adult gray; back, wings olive green; olive yellow below. Song high trill.


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Townsend's Warbler - rare

Dendroica townsendi

Size: 5" - Wood warbler

Male greenish above; breast yellow with black streaks; two white wing bars; head black and yellow.

Female: throat yellow.

Song buzzy.

LS reports: recorded.

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Virginia's Warbler - rare

Vermivora virginiae

Size: 4.5" - Wood warbler

Plain gray above; throat, upper chest, rump yellow; belly white; thin white eye ring.

LS reports: recorded.
MR reports: recorded at the Mineral Spring in the heart of the Park, spring 2003.

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Wilson's Warbler - confirmed presence, Fall, migratory

Wilsonia pusilla

Size: 4.75" - Wood warbler

Male: olive above; face, underparts yellow; cap round, black.

Female: trace cap.

MR reports: observed in Cerrillos during spring migration, 2002 & 2003.

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Yellow Warbler - rare

Dendroica petechia

Size: 5" - Wood warbler

Male: olive-yellow above; head, underparts bright yellow; chest rusty stripes.

Female: no stripes. It prefers areas with running water and patches of shrubs or trees.

The Yellow warbler eats mainly insects, especially caterpillars in trees and shrubs. Its nest is built in dense shrubs of fibers, grasses, wool, and moss, lined with hair or cotton.

Its song is sweet-sweet-sweet-I'm so sweet.

LS reports: recorded.


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Yellow-breasted Chat - breeds by Galisteo River

Icteria virens

Size: 7" - Wood warbler

Largest warbler. Olive above; throat/breast yellow; spectacles white; lores black in male, gray in female; tail long, low. Fluttering courtship flight.


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Yellow-rumped Warbler - confirmed presence

Dendroica coronata

Size: 5.5" - Wood warbler

Gray above, black streaks; chest black; belly white; yellow rump, throat, crown, sides; large white wing patch; broken white eye ring.

Female: gray-brown above; white below; streaked brown.

LS reports: subspecies Myrtle & Audubon's both recorded. Present spring & fall.
MR reports: observed year-round in Cerrillos Hills.

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ISOLATED EVENTS

LS reports:

- Black-and-white Warbler, recorded.

IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS

Sighted at the Leonora Curtin Natural History Area (a lush, well-watered preserve 3 miles north of Cerro Bonanza, near La Ciénega)

Orange-crowned Warbler, Virginia's Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, MacGillivray Warbler, Wilson's Warbler - TRANSIENT (fall & spring)
Common Yellowthroat - SUMMER

Sighted at the Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group -- 7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)

Orange-crowned, Virginia's, Yellow-rumped, Black-throated Gray, Grace's, MacGillivray's, Wilson's, American Redstart - as of '04



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This page last revised 23 November 2007