Slate-throated Redstart

Myioborus miniatusOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: STRE Scientific Name: MYIMIN ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178985

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Slate-throated Redstart Breeding Male Portrait

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Slate-throated Redstart

Slate-throated Redstart: Medium warbler with slate-gray upperparts, black face, throat, red breast, belly, and chestnut-brown crown. The tail is slate-gray with white edges and the wings are black. Insects make up most of its diet caught on the wing and it also forages on the ground.

● Song: "chee-chee-chee", "churry-churry-churry", "chip"

● Foraging & 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.

● Breeding & 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.

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

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight for short distances on rapidly beating wings

Slate-throated Redstart Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & 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.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationAccidental in North America

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.3 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.

Field Guide to Birds of North America