Breeding Location:
Rocky places, Grasslands
Breeding Type:
Monogamous, Solitary nester
Breeding Population:
Casual to accidental
Egg Color:
White with gray and red brown flecks
Number of Eggs:
2 - 4
Incubation Days:
12 - 14
Egg Incubator:
Female
Nest Material:
Lined with finer materials., Plant stems, fibers and grasses.
Migration:
Nonmigratory
Recommended Products:
General
Fan-tailed Warbler: Small, secretive warbler with dark gray upperparts, red-brown underparts, and white-tipped tail. Head has yellow throat and patches. Juvenile is dark gray with two thin white wing-bars and pale yellow vent. Very rare visitor to desert canyons in southeastern Arizona.
Range and Habitat
Fan-tailed Warbler: Found in Mexico south to Nicaragua, with six records from southeast Arizona. Preferred habitats include dry or low rocky stream bottoms.
Breeding and Nesting
Fan-tailed Warbler: Two to four white eggs, flecked with gray and red brown, are laid in a domed nest made of plant stems, fibers, and grass, lined with finer materials, and sheltered by grass, a bank, or a boulder. Incubation ranges from 12 to14 days and is carried out by the female.
Foraging and Feeding
Fan-tailed Warbler: Eats insects, spiders, berries, and seeds; follows army ant swarms in the tropics. Forages by walking or shuffling around on the ground; also hawks insects from the ground.
Readily Eats
Sugar Water, Fruit, Nut Pieces
Vocalization
Fan-tailed Warbler: Song is a bold pleasing melody of slurred notes, beginning weakly and building to a strong ending with an up- and down-slurred note at the end, "suwee-suwee-suwee, chu." Call is a sharp, high "schree."
Similar Species
Fan-tailed Warbler: None in North America
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