Vermivora

Vermivora
Blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus:
Swainson, 1827
Type species
Vermivora solitaria[1]
Swainson, 1827
Species

See text.

Vermivora is a genus of New World warblers.

Species

Three species are accepted in the genus,[2] one of these species may be extinct:[a]

Genus Vermivora – Swainson, 1827 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Bachman's warbler

Vermivora bachmanii
(Audubon, 1833) 		Southeast United States and wintering in Cuba
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Habitat:

Diet: 		 CR 


Blue-winged warbler

Vermivora cyanoptera
Olson & Reveal, 2009 		southern Ontario and the eastern United States
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Golden-winged warbler

Vermivora chrysoptera
Linnaeus, 1766 		south-central Canada and in the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern to north-central United States
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 NT 




Several additional species were formerly included in Vermivora,[3] but have now been transferred to the genus Leiothlypis:[2][4]

Notes

  1. ^ The United States Fish and Wildlife Service delisted Bachman's warbler in 2023, but IUCN still lists it as critically endangered

References

  1. ^ "Parulidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ^ a b IOC World Bird List Family Parulidae Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Sibley, D. (2000). The Sibley Field Guide to Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45122-6.
  4. ^ Lovette, I. J. et al. (2010). A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (2): 753-770. Abstract
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