Birds of Venezuela

    PASSERIFORMES: Parulidae (New World Warblers)  
Genus: Myiothlypis (7 species, 18 worldwide)


Grey-throated Warbler
Grey-throated Warbler (Myiothlypis cinereicollis cinereicollis) Near Threatened
Laguna Tabacal, La Vega, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


Russet-crowned Warbler
Russet-crowned Warbler (Myiothlypis coronata regulus)
San Sebastian Reserve, Envigado, Antioquia, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Common and widespread in Andean cloudforests.

Flavescent Warbler
Flavescent Warbler (Myiothlypis flaveola flaveola)
Brazil  
   
Photograph by Rodrigo Conte   © All Rights Reserved.

Flavescent Warbler
Flavescent Warbler (Myiothlypis flaveola flaveola)
Serra do Cipó NP, Minas Gerais, Brazil  
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.

Totally yellow (flavescent) unlike similar birds, and with orange legs. Although mainly found in Venezuela eastern South America, there are now several photo records from west Colombia.

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Grey-headed Warbler (Myiothlypis griseiceps) ENDEMIC
   



Citrine Warbler
Citrine Warbler (Myiothlypis luteoviridis)
Ucumarí Regional Park, Pereira, Colombia
  Note thick eyebrow.
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Note pink legs (hemispingus have black legs) and thick buff/white brow (yellow brow in south Peru and Boliva and sometimes considered a separate species).

Black-crested Warbler
Black-crested Warbler (Myiothlypis nigrocristata)
Hacienda del Bosque, Manizales, Colombia  
   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.

Found in Andean forests from 2000m up to 3500m.

Roraiman Warbler
Roraiman Warbler (Myiothlypis roraimae)
Venezuela  
   
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com   © All Rights Reserved.

Most closely related to the Two-banded Warbler and probably has a wider distrubution in Guyana than shown in our map (HBW).


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