Fan-tailed Warbler

Euthlypis lachrymosaOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: FTWA Scientific Name: EUTLAC ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178968

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Fan-tailed Warbler Breeding Male Portrait

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Fan-tailed Warbler

Fan-tailed Warbler: Small, secretive warbler, dark gray upperparts, red-brown underparts, white-tipped tail. Head has yellow throat and small crown patch, white eye crescents. Walks on the ground rather than hop. Undertail coverts are white. Short, weak flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Song: "suwee-suwee-suwee, chu", "schree"

● Foraging & 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.

● Breeding & 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.

● Similar species: Fan-tailed Warbler: None in North America

Flight Pattern

Short weak fluttering flights on rapidly beating wings. Flies from ground to take insects in air then back to perch or ground.

Fan-tailed Warbler Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & 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.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationCasual to accidental

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.5 Ounces

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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