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Fan-tailed Warbler

Euthlypis lachrymosaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Fan-tailed Warbler Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Fan-tailed Warbler: Small, secretive warbler with dark gray upperparts, red-brown underparts, and white-tipped tail. Head has yellow throat and patches. Juvenile is dark gray with two thin white wing-bars and pale yellow vent. Very rare visitor to desert canyons in southeastern Arizona.

Range and Habitat

Fan-tailed Warbler: Found in Mexico south to Nicaragua, with six records from southeast Arizona. Preferred habitats include dry or low rocky stream bottoms.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"suwee-suwee-suwee, chu", "schree"

Interesting Facts

  • The Fan-tailed Warbler is sometimes placed in the genus Basileuterus, since its nest, eggs, voice, and juvenile plumage are similar. However, no Basileuterus warbler has a tail or a tawny breast like the Fan-tailed's, so it is generally kept in the monotypic genus Euthlypis.
  • A group of warblers has many collective nouns, including a "bouquet", "confusion", "fall", and "wrench" of warblers.


Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Family
Species Euthlypis lachrymosa
Length5.5 - 6 Inches
Wingspan9 Inches

Fan-tailed Warbler

Fan-tailed Warbler: Small, secretive warbler, dark gray upperparts, red-brown underparts, white-tipped tail. Head has yellow throat and small crown patch, white eye crescents. Walks on the ground rather than hop. Undertail coverts are white. Short, weak flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Song: "suwee-suwee-suwee, chu", "schree"

● Foraging & Feeding: Fan-tailed Warbler: Eats insects, spiders, berries, and seeds; follows army ant swarms in the tropics. Forages by walking or shuffling around on the ground; also hawks insects from the ground.

● Breeding & nesting: Fan-tailed Warbler: Two to four white eggs, flecked with gray and red brown, are laid in a domed nest made of plant stems, fibers, and grass, lined with finer materials, and sheltered by grass, a bank, or a boulder. Incubation ranges from 12 to14 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Fan-tailed Warbler: None in North America

Flight Pattern

Short weak fluttering flights on rapidly beating wings. Flies from ground to take insects in air then back to perch or ground.
Fan-tailed Warbler Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Fan-tailed Warbler: Found in Mexico south to Nicaragua, with six records from southeast Arizona. Preferred habitats include dry or low rocky stream bottoms.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationCasual to accidental
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.5 Ounces