Setophaga
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Setophaga is a genus of birds of the New World warbler family Parulidae. It contains at least 34 species. For example, the males in breeding plumage are often highly colorful. The Setophaga warblers are an example of adaptive radiation with the various species using different feeding techniques and often feeding in different parts of the same tree. (And some others.)
Setophaga | |
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Blackburnian warbler, Setophaga fusca | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Parulidae |
Genus: | Setophaga Swainson, 1827 |
Type species | |
Motacilla ruticilla[1] Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Synonyms | |
Parula Bonaparte, 1838 |
Most Setophaga species are long-range migrants, wintering in or near the New World tropics and seasonally migrating to breed in North America. In contrast, either three Grace's-like Setophaga species, the Adelaide's warbler, the Barbuda warbler, and the Vitelline warbler have winter ranges that extend along the Atlantic coast of Central America as far north as South America.[2]