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
"In the evening, foraging over the ground as they went, the Audubon
warblers and bluebirds would go together to bathe in one of the rivulets
that flowed through the pastures. After splashing vigorously in the
shallow water they would fly up together into the raijón bushes, shake
the drops from their feathers, sometimes wipe their wet faces against
the branches, and put their plumage in order again. The last Audubon
warbler that I saw in the spring was a lone female, who foraged in
company with a pair of the resident bluebirds in the open pasture. She
must have appreciated the companionship of the bluebirds more than ever,
after all of her own kind had departed for more northerly regions.
"Guatemalan dates are: Sierra de Tecpán, January 16 to April 23, 1933;
Sierra Cuchumatanes, September 13, 1934; Chichicastenango (Griscom),
November 16."
DISTRIBUTION
_Range._--Western North America from central British Columbia to
Guatemala.
_Breeding range._--Audubon's warbler breeds =north= to central British
Columbia (Hazelton, Fort St. James, and Nukko Lake) and central western
Alberta (Smoky River). =East= to southwestern Alberta (Smoky River,
Jasper Park, Banff National Park, and Crowsnest Lake); casually to
southwestern Saskatchewan (Cypress Hills); western Montana (Fortine,
Teton County, Bozeman, and Fort Custer); western South Dakota (Harding
County and the Black Hills); northwestern Nebraska (Warbonnet Canyon,
Sioux County); central Colorado (Estes Park, Gold Hill, Colorado
Springs, Wet Mountains, and Fort Garland); central New Mexico (Taos,
Ruidoso, and Cloudcroft); western Texas (Guadalupe Mountains); and
western Chihuahua (Pinos Altos); in migration much farther east.
=South= to central western Chihuahua (Pinos Altos); southeastern to
north-central Arizona (Huachuca Mountains, Santa Catalina Mountains,
Flagstaff, and Grand Canyon); southwestern Utah (Zion National Park);
southern Nevada (Charleston Mountains); central southern California (San
Bernardino Mountains and the Santa Rosa Mountains); and northern Baja
California (Sierra San Pedro Mártir). =West= to northern Baja California
(Sierra San Pedro Mártir); southwestern California (San Jacinto
Mountains and Mount Wilson); central eastern California (Yosemite Valley
and Big Trees); western California (Diablo, Mount Tamalpais, Fort Ross,
and Trinity Mountains); western Oregon (Coos Bay, Eugene, Corvallis, and
Netarts); western Washington (Cape Disappointment, Shelton, and the San
Juan Islands); and western British Columbia (Cowichan Lake and Port
Hardy, Vancouver Island; and Hazelton).
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