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Setophaga petechia
The American Yellow Warbler is a New World warbler species.
Isla Santiago, Galapagos
Spotted on Nov 25, 2012
Submitted on Dec 19, 2012
3 Comments
Very colorful!
Thank you Peter! I think this was about the only species we saw on every island so I've ended up with quite a few spottings of this photogenic little bird. Wiki mentions the mangrove warbler is also resident so I'm not sure which sub-species this is.
Beautiful action shot! - This is a fascinating species: I just see at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setophaga_p... that 35 subspecies have been described, breeding in very different types of habitat from northern Canada down to northern South America.