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 VU    Pink-headed Warbler* Id (Atlas):
    Cardellina versicolor

Description (10)
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Family
Parulidae (New World Warblers)

Size
13 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Salvin, 1864)

Habitat
Humid to semi-humid pine-oak-alder, pine, and cypress forest with a dense, undisturbed understorey. From 1,800 - 3,500 m, but is most common above 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)
Guatemala (B) (NB), Mexico (B) (NB).

Highlands of southern Mexico (eastern Chiapas) and Guatemala (east to Sierra de las Minas).
 
Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010) and decreasing.

Status VU
Habitat destruction, degradation and fragmentation through human use such as coppicing for charcoal production, timber extraction, farming, flower production, animal-grazing and subsistence wood-cutting, are the main threats.

For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Song is a series of chips and trills. A high thin 'tsiu' call.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (3)...)

 
Pink-headed Warbler (Cardellina versicolor) [XC259460]
     by Andrew Spencer from Nr Rancho Nuevo, southeast of San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico (call)

 
Pink-headed Warbler (Cardellina versicolor) [XC880013]
     by Peter Boesman from Vega del Volcan, San Marcos, Guatemala (call)

Subspecies
No subspecies.

Forms a superspecies with Red Warbler (Cardellina rubra) and has been considered conspecific, but differs in plumage (especially head pattern) and no indication of increased similarity in north-west of range, where geographically closest.


References
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Files:
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