Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens)

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada (B) (P), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela.

Vagrant to Ecuador, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is 10,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (182)...)

Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) [XC691156]
by David A. Brinkman from Lancy Brook Wetlands Brookline \/ Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States (song)

Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) [XC13770]
by Andrew Spencer from Stony River Road, Lake Co., Minnesota, United States (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Golden-cheeked Warbler (Setophaga chrysoparia), Townsend's Warbler (Setophaga townsendi) and Hermit Warbler (Setophaga occidentalis), and Black-throated Grey Warbler (Setophaga nigrescens) is closely related to this group. Probably the sister-species of Golden-cheeked Warbler (Setophaga chrysoparia) and has occasionally been considered conspecific. Has hybridized with Townsend's Warbler (Setophaga townsendi). A hybrid involving Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia) and (probably) Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) recorded at Long Point (in Ontario) in 1990. Subspecies weakly differentiated.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

virens (Gmelin, 1789) - Breeds in southern Canada (extreme eastern British Columbia east to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia) and southern in north-eastern USA to Wisconsin, southern Michigan and New England, and in Appalachians to northern Georgia and Alabama, with isolated population in central Arkansas; migrates to eastern Middle America and Caribbean, also locally Pacific slope of southern Mexico, and in smaller numbers to southern USA (southern Texas, southern Florida) and northern Colombia and northern Venezuela.
waynei Bangs, 1918 - Breeds coastal eastern USA (extreme south-eastern Virginia south to southern South Carolina).

References
See References.

Files:

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