General

Slate-throated Redstart: Medium-sized warbler with slate-gray upperparts, black face and throat, red breast and belly, and chestnut-brown crown. Tail is slate-gray with white edges. Wings are black.

Range and Habitat

Slate-throated Redstart: Very rare visitor to western Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico; native to northern Mexico south to Central and South America. Preferred habitats include wooded pine-oak canyons.

Breeding and Nesting

Slate-throated Redstart: Three to four white eggs with flecks of gray and red brown are laid in a nest made of conifer needles and grass, and lined with hair and feathers. Incubation ranges from 13 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Slate-throated Redstart: Eats mainly insects; forages on the ground, in low vegetation, and at low to middle level in trees. Gleans, hover-gleans, and catches food in flight.

Vocalization

Slate-throated Redstart: Repeats a series of high, thin notes in two parts, changing in pitch halfway through "chee-chee-chee", "churry-churry-churry", with second part accelerating and ending sharply or with an up-slurred note. Call is a "chip."

Similar Species

Slate-throated Redstart: Painted Redstart has white wing patches and darker upperparts.