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unusual facts about Swainson's Warbler


Great Cypress Swamp

The swamp also contains two regionally rare species, Swainson's Warbler and Black-throated Green Warbler.


1998 in birding and ornithology

An Eastern Bonelli's Warbler in Shetland in August is the third to be accepted as definitely this species.

Albertine Rift montane forests

The rare Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) survives only in this ecoregion as do L'Hoest's Monkey and a sub-species of Hamlyn's Monkey as well as many species of butterflies, and birds including Grauer's Warblers, Chapin's Flycatchers, and the Ruwenzori Turaco.

Alexander Wilson

Several species of bird are named after Wilson, including the Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Wilson's Plover, Wilson's Phalarope, Wilson's Snipe, and Wilson's Warbler.

Audubon's Warbler

The Audubon's Warbler (Setophaga auduboni or Setophaga coronata auduboni) is a small New World warbler.

Deforestation in the United States

Of the 28 forest bird species with habitat exclusively in that forest, Pimm claims four become extinct either wholly or mostly because of habitat loss, the passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet, ivory-billed woodpecker, and Bachman's Warbler.

Francesco Cetti

Cetti is commemorated in the name of the Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti, which was collected on Sardinia by Alberto della Marmora.

Hickling Broad

Birds that visit the reserve during the winter include cranes, goldeneyes, shovelers and teals, while bitterns, marsh harriers, pochards, water rails and Cetti’s warblers stay for most of the year.

Hugh Whistler

Whistler's Warbler originally described as Seicercus burkii whistleri is now considered a full species Seicercus whistleri.

John Swainson

Swainson served in the United States Army during World War II with the 95th Infantry Division and lost both legs by amputation following a land mine explosion November 15, 1944, near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine.

On June 23, 1963, Swainson accompanied the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh, and approximately 125,000 people on a "Walk for Freedom" march down Detroit's Woodward Avenue.

Kirtland's Warbler

There is a Kirtland's Warbler Wildlife Festival, which is sponsored in part by Kirtland Community College (which is named in honor of the bird and its habitat).

MacGillivray's Warbler

MacGillivray's Warblers are migratory and spend their summers in temporate forests located in the western United States, and in boreal forests of west Canada.

Menetries's Warbler

It is similar to female Sardinian and Subalpine Warblers but has plainer tertial feathers and more contrast between the pale back and dark tail.

Northern Grey-headed Sparrow

The Northern Grey-headed Sparrow is replaced in eastern and southern Africa by very similar birds that are sometimes considered races of this species: Swainson's Sparrow, the Parrot-billed Sparrow, the Swahili Sparrow, and the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow.

Opatrini

Neopachypterus Bouchardt, Lobl & Merkl, 2007 (formerly Pachypterus Lucas, 1846 (non Swainson, 1839: preoccupied))

Radde's Warbler

The scientific name commemorates the German astronomer Ludwig Schwarz (1822-1894).

Rüppell's Warbler

This in turn is related to the species of Mediterranean and Middle East Sylvia warblers that have a naked eye-ring, namely the Subalpine Warbler, Sardinian Warbler and Ménétries's Warbler.

Savi's Warbler

The adult has an unstreaked grey-brown back, whitish grey underparts and a lack of throat streaks, which is a distinction from the River Warbler.

Swainson's Sparrow

The birds also use cavities in buildings, and the old nests of the Ethiopian Swallow and African Sand Martin.

Swainson's Thrush

Subspecies Cathartus ustulatus alame and C. u. swainsoni summer east of the British Columbian Coast Mountains, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada, and C. u. ustulatus and C. u. oedicus summer west of these ranges.

Swallows and Amazons

Young Titty was played by Phoebe Phillips, John by John Paul Ekins, Susan by Flora Harris, Roger by Joe Sowerbutts, mother by Penny Downie, Nancy by Catherine Poole, Peggy by Jackie Swainson and Uncle Jim by Nicholas Le Prevost.

The Broads

The scarce Cetti's Warbler breeds in the Broads, and Britain's only breeding Common Cranes are found in the area.

Upcher's Warbler

Ehrenberg's original description of this bird was 'rather vague' and it was redescribed by Henry Baker Tristram in 1864, naming it Hippolais upcheri after his friend Henry Morris Upcher.

Western Bonelli's Warbler

This bird is named after the Italian ornithologist Franco Andrea Bonelli.

Winifred's Warbler

The genus Scepomycter has traditionally been considered monotypic, but in 2009 a closely related new species was described, the Rubeho Warbler.

Populations in the Rubeho-Ukaguru Mountains are the very similar Rubeho Warbler, and the status as vulnerable is for the "combined" species.

Zone-tailed Hawk

The Zone-tailed is comparable in length and wingspan to common large Buteos found to the north such as Swainson's and Red-tailed Hawk, but may weigh considerably less.


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