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* Candelita, American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (Mc)
* La candelita norteña o pavito migratorio (Setophaga ruticilla) es una especie de avepaseriforme de la familia de los parúlidos que vive en América. Tradicionalmente era la única especie del género Setophaga.
* Los adultos miden una media de 12 cm de largo. Los machos son de color negro en la cabeza, las partes dorsales, la garganta y el pecho; el vientre y las plumas cobertoras de la cola son blancos. En los flancos del pecho hay manchas naranjas brillantes, también en las rémiges del ala y en la cola.
En las hembras, la cabeza y las partes dorales son grisáceas o grisáceo oliváceas, y las partes ventrales blancas. En los costados y la cola hay manchas amarillo limón brillante.
Los juveniles se parecen a las hembras pero los machos presentan tintes naranjas en los costados, además de presentar algunas manchas negras en el cuerpo.
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The American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) is a New World warbler. It is unrelated to the Old World redstarts. It derives its name from the male's red tail, start being an old word for tail.
The breeding males are unmistakable, jet black above apart from large orange-red patches on their wings and tails. Their breast sides are also orange, with the rest of their underparts colored white. In their other plumages, American redstarts display green in their upperparts, along with black central tails and grey heads. The orange patches of the breeding males are replaced by yellow in the plumages of the females and young birds.
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Lugar de Observacion / Taken: Reserva Ecologica Agüita Dulce (READ), Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.
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* Scientific classification
* Kingdom:•Animalia
* Phylum:•Chordata
* Class:•Aves
* Order:•Passeriformes
* Family:•Parulidae
* Genus:•Setophaga
* Species:•S. ruticilla
* Binomial name
* Setophaga ruticilla
In pursuit of bugs, an male American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) finally moved to an outer branch of this emerging willow where I could get a shot. They are very fast and busy warblers that often flit from branch to branch in the shadows and they had eluded me much of the previsou day at Horicon Marsh NWR. This was a lovely way to start a beautiful day shared with good friends!
The birds of North America
New York :Published under the auspices of the Natural Science Association of America,1903.
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands :.
London :Printed for B. White,1771..
A female American redstart peers from a branch in the mangrove of the Caroni Bird Sanctuary, Trinidad.
The American Redstart is medium-sized Warbler with a relatively wide, flat bill and fairly long, expressive tail. In flight it has a deep chest, slim belly, and long, somewhat club-shaped tail.
Adult male American Redstarts are mostly black with bright orange patches on the sides, wings, and tail. The belly is white. Females and immature males replace the orange with yellow or yellow-orange. They have a gray head and underparts, with olive back and wings and dark-gray tail. Average length is 4.3 - 5.1 inches (11 - 13 cm) with a wingspan of 6.3 - 7.5 inches (16 - 19 cm).
American Redstarts breed in moist, deciduous, second-growth woodlands with abundant shrubs, across much of the eastern and northern United States and southern Canada. Its habitat is often situated near water, and includes alder and willow thickets, thickets in treefall gaps within old-growth forest, fencerows, orchards, and mixed deciduous-coniferous woodlands. In the western part of their range they use riverside woods, thickets, and coniferous forest.
They spend the winter in low- to mid-elevation forest habitats in southern Florida and California, as well as in southern and western Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. Their wintering habitat includes mangroves, shade coffee plantations, citrus plantations, wet forest, scrub thickets, and even isolated trees in residential urban areas.
American Redstarts feed mostly on insects, including leafhoppers, planthoppers, flies, moths and their larvae, wasps, and beetles. In late summer they also eat some small berries and fruits, such as barberry, serviceberry, and magnolia. They forage between the ground and near the top of the canopy, taking most of their prey from twigs, branches, and leaves. They fan their tails and droop their wings, showcasing the orange-and-black or yellow-and-gray “flash patterns” of their plumage, presumably to startle prey and flush it from vegetation where they catch it in the air.
American Redstarts take more flying prey than most other Warbler species, and they compete with other fly-catching species (such as Least Flycatcher) for the same prey.
ISO1600, aperture f/8, exposure .003 seconds (1/400) focal length 630mm
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands :
London :Printed for B. White,1771.
Migrating warbler in my front yard this week... interesting look when these guys are transitioning to their Adult plummage.
Candelita, American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) (Mc)
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Lugar de Observacion / Taken: Reserva Ecologica Agüita Dulce (READ), Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.
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* Scientific classification
* Kingdom:•Animalia
* Phylum:•Chordata
* Class:•Aves
* Order:•Passeriformes
* Family:•Parulidae
* Genus:•Setophaga
* Species:•S. ruticilla
* Binomial name
* Setophaga ruticilla
Female American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) - Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary - Lincoln Park, Chicago Park District, Chicago, IL - 19 May 2018
Female American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) - Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary - Lincoln Park, Chicago Park District, Chicago, IL - 18 May 2019
Everyone except Doris, claybuster1 (Mike & Doris) , was confused about this bird. Doris recognized it as an female American Redstart, (Setophaaga ruticilla) , which drastically differs in coloration from the almost all black male. The male also has striking orange patches on the sides of his tail, wings and breast.
Update: Thanks Bob the Birdman for updating the ID as a first year male, with the same coloration as a female.
Seen at Lake St.Clair Metropark.
The tail flaring makes them easy to identify.
This is either a female or immature male.
They move quickly and it can be difficult getting a photo.
Setophaga ruticilla
Like the Painted Redstart and other “redstarts” of the Neotropics, the American Redstart flashes the bright patches in its tail and wings. This seems to startle insect prey and give the birds an opportunity to catch them. Though these birds share a common name, they are not closely related to each other. In fact, there are other unrelated birds around the world—such as the fantails of Australia and southeastern Asia, and other redstarts of Europe—that share the same foraging tricks.
source - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
The American Redstart is medium-sized Warbler with a relatively wide, flat bill and fairly long, expressive tail. In flight it has a deep chest, slim belly, and long, somewhat club-shaped tail.
Adult male American Redstarts are mostly black with bright orange patches on the sides, wings, and tail. The belly is white. Females and immature males replace the orange with yellow or yellow-orange. They have a gray head and underparts, with olive back and wings and dark-gray tail. Average length is 4.3 - 5.1 inches (11 - 13 cm) with a wingspan of 6.3 - 7.5 inches (16 - 19 cm).
American Redstarts breed in moist, deciduous, second-growth woodlands with abundant shrubs, across much of the eastern and northern United States and southern Canada. Its habitat is often situated near water, and includes alder and willow thickets, thickets in treefall gaps within old-growth forest, fencerows, orchards, and mixed deciduous-coniferous woodlands. In the western part of their range they use riverside woods, thickets, and coniferous forest.
They spend the winter in low- to mid-elevation forest habitats in southern Florida and California, as well as in southern and western Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. Their wintering habitat includes mangroves, shade coffee plantations, citrus plantations, wet forest, scrub thickets, and even isolated trees in residential urban areas.
American Redstarts feed mostly on insects, including leafhoppers, planthoppers, flies, moths and their larvae, wasps, and beetles. In late summer they also eat some small berries and fruits, such as barberry, serviceberry, and magnolia. They forage between the ground and near the top of the canopy, taking most of their prey from twigs, branches, and leaves. They fan their tails and droop their wings, showcasing the orange-and-black or yellow-and-gray “flash patterns” of their plumage, presumably to startle prey and flush it from vegetation where they catch it in the air.
American Redstarts take more flying prey than most other Warbler species, and they compete with other fly-catching species (such as Least Flycatcher) for the same prey.
ISO1600, aperture f/8, exposure .002 seconds (1/500) focal length 630mm
I've been trying to get a shot of one of these guys for the past 2 weeks. They don't sit still very long! Rock-a-bye RR trail - Washington Valley, Morris Township, NJ
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