Life histories of North American wood warblers, Part 1 (of 2)Bent, Arthur Cleveland
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Life histories of North American wood warblers, Part 1 (of 2)
Bent, Arthur Cleveland
Birds -- North America; Passeriformes; Wood warblers
"Late dates of spring departure from Central America are:
Honduras--Tela, April 24, 1930. Guatemala--passim (Griscom), April 15;
Motagua Valley, near Los Amates, April 30, 1932."
Dickey and van Rossem (1938) record it for El Salvador as a--
rare fall migrant, but common winter visitant and spring migrant in the
Arid Lower Tropical Zone. Although found from sea level to 3,500 feet,
the species is much more numerous below 2,000 feet than above that
altitude. Dates of arrival and departure are October 12 and April 24.
* * *
In December perhaps a dozen all told were seen on Mt. Cacaguatique,
always as single birds with small flocks of Tennessee and other
warblers. By January they had become very common, and at Puerto del
Triunfo during the whole of that month and in February at Rio San Miguel
almost every flock of blue honey creepers was accompanied by one or more
magnolia warblers. There was no noticeable decrease in numbers until
after the middle of April, and even on the 24th (the last date on which
the species was noted) they were recorded as common.
DISTRIBUTION
_Range._--Central Canada to Panamá.
_Breeding range._--The magnolia warbler breeds =north= to southwestern
Mackenzie (Wrigley, Providence, and Resolution); northeastern Alberta
(Chipewyan); central Saskatchewan (Flotten Lake, Emma Lake, and Hudson
Bay Junction); central Manitoba (Cedar Lake, Norway House, and Oxford
House); northern Ontario (Red Lake, Lac Seul, and Moose Factory);
southern Quebec (Lake Mistassini, Mingan, and Natashquan); and northern
Newfoundland (Northeast Brook, Canada Bay). =East= to eastern
Newfoundland (Northeast Brook, Badger, and Princeton) and Nova Scotia
(Baddeck, Cape Breton Island). =South= to Nova Scotia (Baddeck, Halifax,
and Barrington); southern Maine (Ellsworth, Bath, Portland, and Saco);
southern New Hampshire (Concord and Monadnock); northwestern
Massachusetts (Winchendon and Pelham); northeastern Pennsylvania (Lords
Valley, Delaware Water Gap, and Pottsville); western Maryland
(Cumberland); central western Virginia (Sounding Knob); central eastern
West Virginia (Watoga and Pickens); occasionally western North Carolina
(Asheville); northeastern Ohio (Pymatuning Bog and Conneaut); possibly
northwestern Ohio (Toledo); northern Michigan (Grayling, Wequetansing,
and the Beaver Islands); northern Wisconsin (Kelley Brook, Ashland, and
Superior); northern Minnesota (McGregor, Leech Lake, and White Earth);
southern Manitoba (Winnepeg and Brandon); southern Saskatchewan (Indian
Head, Wood Mountain, and Maple Creek); central Alberta (Stony Plain,
Lesser Slave Lake, and Winagami); and central British Columbia (Field,
Quesnel, Mukko Lake, and Hazelton). =West= to western and northern
British Columbia (Hazelton and Liard Crossing); and southwestern
Mackenzie (Nahanni Mountains and Wrigley). Accidental or casual north to
Fort Franklin.
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