Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum)

Identification & Behavior: ~14 cm (5.5 in). The Palm Warbler has a western and eastern form, both of which vary in plumage. Adults in non-breeding plumage have a rufous-red crown with gray upperparts. The Eastern form has bright yellow underparts with rufous streaks. The western form has a yellow throat and grayish rest of the underparts streaked with black. The non-breeding plumage is yellowish (E) and grayish (W). All forms, in breeding and non-breeding plumage, have yellow rump and undertail coverts, and large white tips to the outer tail feathers. The Palm Warbler actively bobs the tail up and down and forages on the ground.

Status: The Palm Warbler is a vagrant species in Peru known only from a single documented record along the upper Manu Road in South East Peru.

Name in Spanish: Reinita de las Palmeras.

Sub-species: Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum hypochrysea), Ridgway, 1876.

Meaning of Name: Setophaga palmarum Setophaga: Gr. ses, setos= moth and phagos, phagein= eating, to eat. palmarum: of the palm tres.

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