Adelaide's warbler , or reinita mariposera is a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the genus ''Setophaga'' of the family Parulidae .
Similar species: Perching Birds
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Uploaded Jan 10, 2025. Captured Nov 20, 2024 07:06 in XXG3+9F4, La Parguera, Lajas 00667, Puerto Rico.
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We've got the black and white group, with one on Puerto Rico (Elfin woods), one in Jamaica (Arrowhead), and one on Guadeloupe and Dominica (Plumbeous), these are mostly cloud forest birds.
Then we've got the yellow and gray/brown group with one on PR (Aedelaide's), one on Barbuda, one on St Lucia, one on the Cayman Islands (Vitelline), and one shared between the Bahamas and Cuba (Olive-capped). These are birds found in dry scrub or pine forests. And then we've got the bizarre Whistling Warbler, placed in its own genus, and endemic to St Vincent. Plus two more warblers in Cuba (Oriente and Yellow-headed) that have now been given their own family!
As always with archipelagos, this is such an interesting illustration of biogeography, hinting at the many colonization and extinction events in the distant past that have led to the avifauna we see on each island today.
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