Sentences with phrase «hooded warbler»

- An immature male Hooded Warbler, banded in August 1987 at Hilton Pond during fall migration, was netted the following May on breeding grounds near Chapel Hill, N.C., by a graduate student studying this species.

The authors found that study sites with many deer were virtually devoid of species like the Hooded Warbler, White - eyed Vireo, and the Prairie Warbler — species that rely on the forest undergrowth.

It focuses on the Hooded Warbler, a songbird that spends a brief summer nesting in the forests of eastern North America before migrating south to winter along the Caribbean coast from southern Mexico to Panama.

So what happens when a molting Hooded Warbler loses all its tail feathers while it is still feeding nestlings or fledglings?

Bridget Stutchbury's home page Hooded warbler information from USGS Primer on forest fragmentation

Like many temperate - breeding migrant birds, hooded warblers in continuous forest cheat on their partners so often that fully one - third of their offspring result from extrapair copulations.

The good news for avian conservation is that male hooded warblers frequently cross gaps of up to 450 meters, and they don't seem to require corridors connecting forest patches.

These observations indicate that Hooded Warblers are acutely sensitive to the costs of providing parental care during molt.

Hooded Warblers have an unusual combination of traits that makes conflicts between parental care and molt likely.

Not exact matches

Native birds such as bald eagles, great horned owls, hooded mergansers, wood ducks, and neotropical migrants such as common yellowthroats (contrary to their name, their numbers are few and they are rarely seen), Wilson's warblers, and western tanagers all live in the Black River Riparian Forest.

Given the right season, you might observe a red - billed cinnamon hummingbird, the chestnut - headed mangrove warbler, the mangrove vireo, black catbird, golden - fronted woodpecker, hooded oriole, tropical mockingbird, tropical kingbird, white - collared seedeater, and the boat - tailed grackle.

More than 60 species of birds have been identified on the Turneffe Atoll with the following seen commonly: snowy egret, little blue heron, great blue heron, tricolored heron, yellow - crowned night heron, clapper rail, mangrove swallow, brown pelican, magnificent frigatebird, double - crested cormorant, osprey, mangrove warbler, great tailed grackle, golden fronted woodpecker, tropical mockingbird, cinnamon hummingbird, green breasted mango, hooded oriole, white crowned pigeon and royal tern.

Birding trip afield Search for scarlet tanagers, hooded and Kentucky warblers at birding flag ponds and Battle Creek Cypress in Calvert County.