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This is not as sharp as I would like. It was a bit too far away for my 300 mm. I cropped it a lot because there were all kinds of twigs around it. But this is my first capture of an adult male Redstart. I thought it might be interesting for those not familiar with them, and have seen my recent postings, to see the difference between the adult male and the females and juveniles.
Emily Murphy Park Edmonton. August 23, 2009.
Paruline flamboyante / American Redstart / Setophaga ruticilla
SAINT-FRANÇOIS-DU-LAC - Rg de l'Île Saint-Jean
Mâle au 1er été
20160216 below Minca, Magdalena, CO A1224_CF; this American Redstart found a leak in a water hose and used it to cool down on a very hot day
The American Redstart is a hyperactive medium-sized warbler that migrates through the Galveston, TX area in springtime. They winter in southern Mexico to the Caribbean and migrate north to breed anywhere from the Southeastern USA to southern Canada. We rarely see them in New Mexico, where they are more accidental tan anything else. Their startling coloration helps them to scare up insects as they flit about in trees looking for food.
Females are gray & yellow. Males are black & orange. Redstarts use the trick of flashing their colors by rapidly fanning out the tailfeathers. Supposedly this startles insects and flushes them out of vegetation so the birds can more easily catch them.
Female American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
Garland, Tx
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This is a shot from one of our trips to Texas, where we went to get away from winter.
It turned out to be two of the mildest winters we have had in recent memory.
Staid home this year, bad idea.
Anyway, the redstart is a fast moving warbler that bounces around in search of insects.
I find them difficult to photograph, mostly blurred or behind a branch, this one messed up and sat still in the open.
Setophaga ruticilla
Like the Painted Redstart and other “redstarts” of the Neotropics, the American Redstart flashes the bright patches in its tail and wings.
The male American Redstart sometimes has two mates at the same time. While many other polygamous bird species involve two females nesting in the same territory, the redstart holds two separate territories that can be separated by a quarter-mile. The male begins attracting a second female after the first has completed her clutch and is incubating the eggs.
* 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
* 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: 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
Male American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) - Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary - Lincoln Park, Chicago Park District, Chicago, IL - 19 May 2016
* 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
An American Redstart as I usually catch it on camera - flying away! Ewing Park, Bloomington, Illinois.
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
08/10/2011
I got an early start on migrants this year. Of course I had to drive 800+ miles north...
I hear the Redstarts are showing up in Florida now, so hopefully I'll get some migrants this weekend. Until then, enjoy this little girl.
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Mature males are black and orange, females and immatures are gray and yellow; I believe the black flecks in the head indicate that this is a first fall male.
An adult male American redstart peers out from the branch of a mangrove. It is a New World warbler that migrates southwards annually usually around August - November. It feeds similarly to flycatchers, hovering in the air looking for insects, and is unmistakable with it's bright orange wing bars.
American Redstart, Setophaga ruticilla, Reserva Natural de las Aves Halcón Colorado, Birding tour llanos orientales, Bogota Birding
Male American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) - Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary - Lincoln Park, Chicago Park District, Chicago, IL - 13 May 2016
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Family:Parulidae
Genus:Setophaga
Species:S. ruticilla
Binomial name
Setophaga ruticilla
Average mass
8.3 g
0.29 oz
Average length
13.3 cm
5.24 in
Average wingspan
19.7 cm
7.76 in
FamilyWood Warblers
HabitatSecond-growth woods, river groves. Breeds in open deciduous and mixed woodland, preferring edges of forests or second growth. Attracted also to roadside trees, shrubby and tree-lined stream banks, and ponds. Will nest in second-growth maples, birch, and aspen following fire in coniferous forests. In the Northwest, prefers willow and alder thickets. In winter in the tropics, found in lowland woods.
Warblers in general are often called "the butterflies of the bird world," but the Redstart may live up to that nickname more than any other species. This beautiful warbler flits about very actively in the trees, usually holding its wings and tail partly spread, as if to show off their patches of color. At times it feeds more like a flycatcher than a typical warbler, hovering among the foliage and often flying out to grab insects in mid-air.
Feeding Behavior
Forages very actively, often flying out to catch insects in mid-air or hovering to take them from foliage. Flycatches much more than most warblers, drooping its wings, fanning its tail, and leaping high in the air. Males feed higher and make more mid-air sallies than do females early in the nesting season. Does not cling to tips of branches while hanging upside down as do many warblers. Holds large caterpillars and moths in the bill and bangs them on perch before eating.
Eggs
4, sometimes 2-5. Off-white, with brown or gray marks. Incubation by female only, 11-12 days. Often parasitized by cowbirds. Young: Fed by both parents. Leave the nest at 9 days old. The parents divide the brood into 2 parts, each parent attending only half the fledglings. Normally 1 brood per season.
Young
Fed by both parents. Leave the nest at 9 days old. The parents divide the brood into 2 parts, each parent attending only half the fledglings. Normally 1 brood per season.
Diet
Mostly insects. Feeds on a wide variety of insects including beetles, caterpillars, moths, leafhoppers, aphids, midges, crane flies; also spiders anddaddy longlegs. Also eats some seeds and berries.
Nesting
Males sometimes mate with more than one female and raise 2-3 broods simultaneously. Males perform a frequent boundary display flight toward rivals, with stiffened wingbeats and a glide back to the original perch in a semicircle. Male displays to female during courtship by fluffing plumage, raising crown feathers, spreading wings and tail, and bowing. Nest site picked by female, usually in fork of tree, 4-70' above the ground; rarely on the ground. Open cup nest (built by female) of plant fibers, grass, rootlets, decorated with lichen, birch bark, and feathers; lined with feathers. Sometimes will use old nests of other birds.
Songs and Calls
5 or 6 high-pitched notes or 2-note phrases, ending with an upward or downward inflection: chewy-chewy-chewy, chew-chew-chew.
Migration
Migrates mostly at night. Fall migration begins early, with many southbound in August. Small numbers of strays appear throughout the west, and a few may winter in southern California.