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"In deciduous woodlands, American Redstarts are fairly conspicuous compared to other small birds of the leafy canopy and subcanopy. They are seemingly hyperactive, repeatedly dashing through trees and bushes after unseen insects, or prancing along branches, rapidly spreading and closing its black-and-yellow or black-and-orange tail. Males sing their sweet, explosive songs frequently during spring and early summer. American Redstarts are common spring and fall migrants in the East. It is a later spring migrant (arriving in May in much of the U.S. and Canada) and a mid-season fall migrant (September-early October)."
The American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) is a widespread warbler. And being known far and wide, it has come to be known by a variety of nicknames, including the butterfly of the bird world, due to its fluttery motion. In some parts of the tropics, it has taken a less...pleasing...name: the latrine bird. There, it will often flit around outhouses, awaiting the feast of flies that are drawn to them. Yum! Thank goodness you're so cute, American Redstart; we won't hold your dining habits against you.
Candelita Americana, American Redstart, Setophaga ruticilla
Jardín Botanico de Quito
Provincia de Pichincha
Ecuador
* 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
American redstart, near Rondeau, May 17, 2023.
I was told they want to be a Baltimore Oriole when they grow up.
Setophaga ruticilla.
Young male American Redstarts have gray-and-yellow plumage, like females, until their second fall. Yearling males sing vigorously in the attempt to hold territories and attract mates. Some succeed, but most do not breed successfully until the following year when they develop black-and-orange breeding plumage.
source -allaboutbirds-org.
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
* 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
More New York City birds. Central Park this time. Many of the birds were in their non breading or first year plumage.
Best Viewed large.
I spent 4 days last weekend with Brian Zwiebel of Sabrewing Nature Tours in the Poconos, PA, USA.
I photographed 32 species, 16 warblers and 8 lifers.. A wonderful trip and great company.
Feather maintenance is a heavy business. A lot is asked of feathers, after all. Warmth. Flight. The prettiness that attracts the opposite sex. It's no wonder that even the most territorial of birds will put his emotions in check when confronted with a prime bathing spot. Studies have found that birds even appear 'clumsier' when they cannot take a bath, for their disheveled feathers! More interesting yet, these disheveled birds seem to recognize that they are more inept fliers when they have dirty feathers and they quickly seek out water!
Good work, little lady American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla), but where's your rubber ducky?
First Year Male / Macho de Primer Anio
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
Nombre científico: Setophaga ruticilla
Nombre común: Candelita norteña
English name: American Redstart
Lugar: Medellín, Colombia.
© Wilmer Quiceno
First Year Male / Macho de Primer Anio
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
Paruline flamboyante - Chipe Rey Americano
She was catching insects in the Pin Cherry blossoms.
Blue Sea, QC
This is one of my favorite birds, the male American Redstart. It's a small bird, about 5", all black except for a white belly and striking patches of orange on it's tail, wings and sides.
It's hard to believe that these small birds (among many others) migrate from their wintering grounds in Mexico and as far away as South America.
Seen in Magee Marsh, Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA. Magee Marsh is a noted birding hotspot on the southern shore of Lake Erie, but it often seems to have more birders than birds.
EXPLORE #118 on 5-11-12
American Redstart, Setophaga ruticilla
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I spent about seven hours on this day, tracking and shooting these beautiful birds ... and the American Yellow Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler and Northern Waterthrush. Got a shot or two of the Yellow Warbler I'm happy with. None of the Blackpoll Warbler or Northern Waterthrush I like well enough to upload. But I have quite a few of these beauties. So, be prepared to be bored with similar shots for awhile. :-)
A little story on the days activity: I shoot from the driver's side window of a Silverado 3/4 ton pickup ... not easy with a Sigma Sport 150-600mm telephoto lens on a Nikon D810. I really have to get me a beanbag mount from Lenscoat one of these days soon to save the wear and tear on the arms. Anyway, I park as close to the (wrong) side of the woods road as I can get ... practically on top of the alders. Well, one of these little guys caught his reflection in my side mirror ... it's pretty big on a pickup ... thought it was another bird and went a little nuts. And here am I going just as nuts because it's too close for the lens to focus ... even if I had on the 70-300mm that I had with me rather than the 150-600mm that I had on the camera. So I scrabbled for my iPad I had in the console and got a few shots ... nothing great ... out of focus ... but it does show it in action. Oh, and it was so enthralled? excited? angry? ... who knows what? with its reflection that it actually came into the cab of the pickup for a second and landed on my knee!!! And no folks, I don't have a photographic record of that ... but I do have a witness. My wife had been sitting in the passenger seat reading, but when the Redstart got interested in the mirror she was distracted by the commotion ... both mine and the bird's ... and actually saw it land on my knee. I only felt it, but she saw it!
Fun stuff! Almost as good as the video I have up here on Flickr of a Tree Swallow going for a ride on my finger. Check it out if you haven't seen it.
*** Please note the navy blue colour of the head! It is strange, to say the least. From a distance these male birds appear black, orange, and white ... which agrees with everything I read. But in the closeup shots I took of this one, that is obviously not the case. First, I thought maybe it was the lighting, but then discounted that because it appears in a lot of different poses. Then I thought it might have something to do with the bird's age. You see, the bird is obviously a male, but juvenile males look like the females of the species ... nothing like this ... and both have a gray head. So I thought maybe this is a very young male and it hasn't quite changed completely yet. Seems unlikely though. So perhaps it's just an anomaly ... a variation in species that sometimes occurs in nature. Albino moose and birds come to mind. Anyway, I can't seem to find anything on it. Maybe someone on here knows.
I does remind me of a closeup photo of a loon I have here on Flickr. Before I took it, I would have told you the bird was black and white. Not so! As you will see if you care to check it out.
Ce même mâle est resté plusieurs secondes sur cette perche dégagée et j'ai pu capturer plusieurs postures. Voici une que je trouvait différente et jolie.
A first Fall Male.
This is my fourth Warbler species for this year's Warbler hunt.
I also posted shots of a Black-and-White Warbler and Magnolia Warbler
At this time of year, the Warblers come through in waves and are constantly feeding and moving through various light conditions. I go more for quantity than quality, but try to get shots that represent the species clearly enough.
Emily Murphy Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
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