Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis)

Other Scientific Names
Seiurus motacilla [AERC TAC (2003)], Seiurus motacilla [Cramp and Simmons (1977-1994)], Seiurus motacilla [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Seiurus motacilla [Stotz et al. (1996)], Seiurus motacilla [BirdLife International (2004, 2008)]

Family
Parulidae (New World Warblers)

Size
13 - 15 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Gmelin, 1789)

Habitat
Inland wetlands.

Range (Guide)

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

Vagrant to France, French Polynesia, Greenland, Ireland, Portugal, Russia (Asian), United Kingdom.

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

Population
Estimated population is 13,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (228)...)

Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) [XC898742]
by Stanislas Wroza from Portage Point, Escanaba, Delta County, Michigan, United States (song)

Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia) [XC287994]
by Iain from Minatitlan, refineria de SAnta Alejandrina, Veracruz, Mexico (call)

Subspecies
Forms a species pair with Louisiana Waterthrush (Parkesia motacilla) and sometimes regarded as constituting a superspecies, but overlap in ranges occurs in southern Canada (southern Ontario) and north-eastern USA. Reported hybrid with Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata) now thought probably to have been with Cape May Warbler (Setophaga tigrina). Birds from Newfoundland described as subspecies uliginosus, but considered inseparable from nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

notabilis (Gmelin, 1789) - Breeds from Alaska and north-western Canada south to north-western USA (east-central Oregon to extreme north-western Wyoming), and east to northern Ontario and Great Lakes.
limnaeus McCabe and A. H. Miller, 1933 - Breeds central British Columbia (western Canada).
noveboracensis (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) - Breeds south-eastern Canada (eastern Ontario east to Newfoundland) and north-eastern USA (south to northern West Virginia).

References
See References.

Files:

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