Mourning Warbler

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Mourning Warbler
Mourning Warbler by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Parulidae Genus: Oporornis Species: O. philadelphia
Binomial name
Oporornis philadelphia (Wilson, 1810)

The Mourning Warbler, Oporornis philadelphia, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

These 13 cm long birds have yellow underparts, olive-green upperparts and pink legs. Adult males have a grey hood and a black patch on the throat and breast. Females and immatures are grey-brown on the head with an incomplete eye-ring.

Their breeding habitat is thickets and semi-open areas with dense shrubs across Canada east of the Rockies and the northeastern United States. The nest is an open cup placed on the ground in a well-concealed location under thick shrubs or other vegetation.

These birds migrate to Central America and northern South America.

They forage low in vegetation, sometimes catching insects in flight. These birds mainly eat insects, also some plant material in winter.

The song of this bird is a bright repetitive warble. The call is a sharp chip.

The "mourning" in this bird's name refers to the male's hood, thought to resemble a mourning veil.

Contents 1 References 2 External Links 3 Further reading 3.1 Book 3.2 Thesis 3.3 Articles

[edit] References

• BirdLife International (2004). Oporornis philadelphia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern

[edit] External Links

• Mourning Warbler Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
• Mourning Warbler - Oporornis philadelphia - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
• Mourning Warbler Information - South Dakota Birds and Birding

[edit] Further reading

[edit] Book

• Pitocchelli, Jay. 1993. Mourning Warbler (Oporornis philadelphia). In The Birds of North America, No. 72 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.). Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D.C.: The American Ornithologists’ Union.

[edit] Thesis

• Kingsley AL. M.Sc. (1998). Response of birds and vegetation to the first cut of the uniform shelterwood silvicultural system in the white pine forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario. Trent University (Canada), Canada.

• Pitocchelli J. Ph.D. (1988). Character variation in the Oporornis philadelphia-tolmiei complex. City University of New York, United States -- New York.

• Woodcock JM. M.Sc. (1997). Effects of manual, mechanical, and aerial herbicide conifer release on songbird numbers in regenerating spruce plantations in northwestern Ontario. Lakehead University (Canada), Canada.

[edit] Articles

• Benson A-M, Pogson TH & Doyle TJ. (2000). Updated geographic distribution of eight passerine species in central Alaska. Western Birds. vol 31, no 2. p. 100-105.

• Bledsoe AH. (1988). A Hybrid Oporornis-Philadelphia X Geothlypis-Trichas with Comments on the Taxonomic Interpretation and Evolutionary Significance of Intergeneric Hybridization. Wilson Bulletin. vol 100, no 1. p. 1-8.

• Burris JM & Haney AW. (2005). Bird communities after blowdown in a late-successional Great Lakes spruce-fir forest. Wilson Bulletin. vol 117, no 4. p. 341-352.

• Canterbury GE & Blockstein DE. (1997). Local changes in a breeding bird community following forest disturbance. Journal of Field Ornithology. vol 68, no 4. p. 537-546.

• Collins SL, James FC & Risser PG. (1982). Habitat Relationships of Wood Warblers Parulidae in Northern Central Minnesota USA. Oikos. vol 39, no 1. p. 50-58.

• Hall GA. (1979). Hybridization between Mourning Warbler Oporornis-Philadelphia and Macgillivarays Warbler Oporornis-Tolmiei. Bird Banding. vol 50, no 2. p. 101-107.

• Hanowski J, Danz N, Lind J & Niemi G. (2003). Breeding bird response to riparian forest harvest and harvest equipment. Forest Ecology & Management. vol 174, no 1-3. p. 315-328.

• Harrison RB, Fiona KAS & Robin N. (2005). Stand-level response of breeding forest songbirds to multiple levels of partial-cut harvest in four boreal forest types. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. vol 35, no 7. p. 1553.

• Hobson KA & Schieck J. (1999). Changes in bird communities in boreal mixedwood forest: Harvest and wildfire effects over 30 years. Ecological Applications. vol 9, no 3. p. 849-863.

• Holmes SB & Pitt DG. (2007). Response of bird communities to selection harvesting in a northern tolerant hardwood forest. Forest Ecology & Management. vol 238, no 1-3. p. 280-292.

• Jobes AP, Nol E & Voigt DR. (2004). Effects of selection cutting on bird communities in contiguous eastern hardwood forests. Journal of Wildlife Management. vol 68, no 1. p. 51-60.

• Lemon RE, Struger J & Lechowicz MJ. (1983). Song Features as Species Discriminants in American Warblers Parulidae. Condor. vol 85, no 3. p. 308-322.

• Lent RA & Capen DE. (1995). Effects of small-scale habitat disturbance on the ecology of breeding birds in a Vermont (USA) hardwood forest. Ecography. vol 18, no 2. p. 97-108.

• Niemi GJ & Hanowski JM. (1984). Relationships of Breeding Birds to Habitat Characteristics in Logged Areas. Journal of Wildlife Management. vol 48, no 2. p. 438-443.

• Pitocchelli J. (1990). Plumage Morphometric and Song Variation in Mourning Oporornis-Philadelphia and Macgillivray's Oporornis-Tolmiei Warblers. Auk. vol 107, no 1. p. 161-171.

• Pitocchelli J. (1992). Plumage and Size Variation in the Mourning Warbler. Condor. vol 94, no 1. p. 198-209.

• Schulte LS & Niemi GJ. (1998). Bird communities of early-successional burned and logged forest. Journal of Wildlife Management. vol 62, no 4. p. 1418-1429.

• Scott DM. (1988). Breeding Records of the Mourning Warbler at London Middlesex County Canada. Ontario Birds. vol 6, no 1. p. 32-33.

• Sodhi NS & Paszkowski CA. (1995). Habitat use and foraging behavior of four parulid warblers in a second-growth forest. Journal of Field Ornithology. vol 66, no 2. p. 277-288.