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Plumbeous Warbler
Setophaga plumbea
Endemic to the northern Lesser Antilles: Guadeloupe, Terre-de-Haut, Marie-Galante, and Dominica, where it occurs in most native wooded habitats, including dry scrub, rain forest, and elfin cloud forest.
Identification
A gray-and-white warbler with two white wingbars and a distinctive facial pattern that consists of a long white eyebrow, a wide dark-gray eyeline, a bold white undereye crescent, and a dark gray whisker mark that frames the undereye crescent.
Plumbeous Warbler. (Syndicate Trail, Dominica; March 3, 2018.) © Brian Sullivan
Plumbeous Warbler. (Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe; January 2, 2013.) © Mark Brown
Plumbeous Warbler. (Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica; March 10, 2019.) © Knut Hansen
Plumbeous Warbler, singing. (Guadeloupe; 2007.) © Frantz Delcroix
Plumbeous Warbler. (Beautiran-Chemin, Guadeloupe; October 2, 2013.) © Frantz Delcroix
Plumbeous Warbler. (Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe; January 2, 2013.) © Mark Brown
Plumbeous Warbler. (Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe; January 2, 2013.) © Mark Brown
Plumbeous Warbler. (Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica; March 17, 2014.) © Alan Van Norman
Plumbeous Warbler. (Guadeloupe National Park, Guadeloupe; July 27, 2019.) © Adam Kent
Plumbeous Warbler. (Syndicate Trail, Dominica; March 3, 2018.) © Brian Sullivan
Plumbeous Warbler. (Indian River, Dominica; April 14, 2012.) © John Richardson
Plumbeous Warbler. (St. George, Dominica; March 22, 2018.) © Colin D. Jones
Plumbeous Warbler, close view of facial pattern. (St. Mark, Dominica; June 30, 2016.) © Melissa Donnelly
Plumbeous Warbler. (Guadeloupe; 2008.) © Frantz Delcroix
Plumbeous Warbler. (Cascade aux Ecrevisses, Guadeloupe; March 4, 2018.) © Brian Sullivan
Plumbeous Warbler. (Syndicate Trail, Dominica; March 3, 2018.) © Brian Sullivan
Plumbeous Warbler. (Cascade aux Ecrevisses, Guadeloupe; March 4, 2018.) © Brian Sullivan
Plumbeous Warbler. (St. John, Dominica; March 27, 2018.) © Colin D. Jones
Immatures show the same pattern as adults, but are olive instead of gray, and have a yellowish tinge where the adults are white.
Plumbeous Warbler, immature. (Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica; April 16, 2018.) © Peter Kaestner
Plumbeous Warbler, immature. (Guadeloupe.) © Amazona-Guadeloupe.com
Plumbeous Warbler, immature. (Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica; April 16, 2018.) © Peter Kaestner
Plumbeous Warbler, immature. (Morne Diablotin National Park, Dominica; April 16, 2018.) © Peter Kaestner
Notes
Monotypic species.
References
Curson, J. 2019. Plumbeous Warbler (Setophaga plumbea). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D.A. Christie, and E. de Juana, eds.). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. https://www.hbw.com/node/61492. (Accessed November 10, 2019.)
Curson, J., D. Quinn, and D. Beadle. 1994. Warblers of the Americas: An Identification Guide. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
eBird. 2019. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, N.Y. http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed November 9, 2019.)
Raffaele, H., J. Wiley, O. Garrido, A. Keith, and J. Raffaele. 1998. A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.