Ovenbird

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Ovenbirds are also the Furnariidae family of South American suboscines, specifically the tribe Furnarini which contains the horneros.
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Ovenbird

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus: Seiurus
Species: S. aurocapillus
Binomial name
Seiurus aurocapillus
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

Ovenbirds are 14 cm long and weigh 18 g. They have white underparts streaked with black, and olive-brown upperparts. They have a white eye ring, pinkish legs and a thin pointed bill. They have an orange line on the top of the crown bordered on each side with dark brown.

Their breeding habitat is mature deciduous and mixed forests, especially sites with less undergrowth, across Canada and the eastern United States. The nest, the "oven", is a domed structure placed on the ground, woven from vegetation and with a side entrance. Both parents feed the young birds.

Ovenbirds migrate to the southeastern United States, the West Indies,and from Mexico to northern South America.

This bird seems just capable of crossing the Atlantic, since there have been a handful of records in Norway, Ireland and Great Britain, but half of the six finds were of dead birds. A live Ovenbird on St Mary's, Isles of Scilly in October 2004 had to be taken into care.

They forage on the ground in dead leaves, sometimes hovering or catching insects in flight. This bird frequently tilts its tail up while walking. These birds mainly eat insects, spiders and snails, also seeds in winter.

The song of the Ovenbird is a loud teacher-teacher-teacher. The syllables can also be reversed, producing the pattern erteach-erteach-erteach. The call is a dry chut.

The Ovenbird is vulnerable to nest parasitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird, but its numbers appear to be stable.

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  • Van Horn, M. A. and T. Donovan. 1994. Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla). In The Birds of North America, No. 88 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.). Philadelphia: The Academy of Natural Sciences; Washington, D.C.: The American Ornithologists’ Union.

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  • Brown DR. Ph.D. (2006). Food supply and the dry-season ecology of a tropical resident bird community and an over-wintering migrant bird species. Tulane University, United States -- Louisiana.

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  • Ahlering MA & Faaborg J. (2006). Avian habitat management meets conspecific attraction: If you build it, will they come?. Auk. vol 123, no 2. p. 301-312.
  • Allen JC, Krieger SM, Walters JR & Collazo JA. (2006). Associations of breeding birds with fire-influenced and riparian-upland gradients in a longleaf pine ecosystem. Auk. vol 123, no 4. p. 1110-1128.
  • Bayne EM, Boutin S, Tracz B & Charest K. (2005). Functional and numerical responses of ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla) to changing seismic exploration practices in Alberta's boreal forest. Ecoscience. vol 12, no 2. p. 216-222.
  • Betts MG, Forbes GJ, Diamond AW & Taylor PD. (2006). Independent effects of fragmentation on forest songbirds: An organism-based approach. Ecological Applications. vol 16, no 3. p. 1076-1089.
  • Brawn JD. (2006). Effects of restoring oak savannas on bird communities and populations. Conservation Biology. vol 20, no 2. p. 460-469.
  • Brown DR & Sherry TW. (2006). Food supply controls the body condition of a migrant bird wintering in the tropics. Oecologia. vol 149, no 1. p. 22-32.
  • Clark AR, Bell CE & Morris SR. (2005). Comparison of daily avian mortality characteristics at two television towers in western New York, 1970-1999. Wilson Bulletin. vol 117, no 1. p. 35-43.
  • Dean KL, Carlisle HA & Swanson DL. (2004). Age structure of neotropical migrants during fall migration in South Dakota: Is the northern Great Plains region an inland "coast"?. Wilson Bulletin. vol 116, no 4. p. 295-303.
  • Dugger KM, Faaborg J, Arendt WJ & Hobson KA. (2004). Understanding survival and abundance of overwintering Warblers: Does rainfall matter?. Condor. vol 106, no 4. p. 744-760.
  • Habib L, Bayne EM & Boutin S. (2007). Chronic industrial noise affects pairing success and age structure of ovenbirds Seiurus aurocapilla. Journal of Applied Ecology. vol 44, no 1. p. 176-184.
  • 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.
  • Holmes SB & Pitt DG. (2007). Response of bird communities to selection harvesting in a northern tolerant hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management. vol 238, no 1-3. p. 280-292.
  • Howell CA, Porneluzi PA, Clawson RL & Faaborg J. (2004). Breeding density affects point-count accuracy in Missouri forest birds. Journal of Field Ornithology. vol 75, no 2. p. 123-133.
  • King DI, Degraaf RM, Smith ML & Buonaccorsi JP. (2006). Habitat selection and habitat-specific survival of fledgling ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla). Journal of Zoology. vol 269, no 4. p. 414-421.
  • Komar O, O'Shea J, Townsend Peterson A & Navarro-Siguenza AG. (2005). Evidence of latitudinal sexual segregation among migratory birds wintering in Mexico. Auk. vol 122, no 3. p. 938-948.
  • Lloyd P, Martin TE, Redmond RL, Langner U & Hart MM. (2005). Linking demographic effects of habitat fragmentation across landscapes to continental source-sink dynamics. Ecological Applications. vol 15, no 5. p. 1504-1514.
  • Machtans CS. (2006). Songbird response to seismic lines in the western boreal forest: a manipulative experiment. Canadian Journal of Zoology. vol 84, no 10. p. 1421-1430.
  • Mattsson BJ & Niemi GJ. (2006). Factors influencing predation on Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) nests in northern hardwoods: Interactions across spatial scales. Auk. vol 123, no 1. p. 82-96.
  • Molaei G, Oliver J, Andreadis TG, Armstrong PM & Howard JJ. (2006). Molecular identification of blood-meal sources in Culiseta melanura and Culiseta morsitans from an endemic focus of eastern equine encephalitis virus in New York. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene. vol 75, no 6. p. 1140-1147.
  • Morton ES. (2005). Predation and variation in breeding habitat use in the Ovenbird, with special reference to breeding habitat selection in northwestern Pennsylvania. Wilson Bulletin. vol 117, no 4. p. 327-335.
  • Nol E, Francis CM & Burke DM. (2005). Using distance from putative source woodlots to predict occurrence of forest birds in putative sinks. Conservation Biology. vol 19, no 3. p. 836-844.
  • Podolsky AL, Simons TR & Collazo JA. (2004). A method of food supplementation for ground-foraging insectivorous songbirds. Journal of Field Ornithology. vol 75, no 3. p. 296-302.
  • Shifley SR, Thompson FR, Dijak WD, Larson MA & Millspaugh JJ. (2006). Simulated effects of forest management alternatives on landscape structure and habitat suitability in the Midwestern United States. Forest Ecology and Management. vol 229, no 1-3. p. 361-377.
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