Fauna of the Baja California Peninsula (Mexico)

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Chapters: Birds of Baja Peninsula Mexico, Ring-tailed Cat, Yellow Warbler, California Condor, Pinyon Jay, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Bighorn Sheep, Western Scrub Jay, Yellow-breasted Chat, Lark Bunting, Brewer's Sparrow, Northern Waterthrush, Oryzomys peninsulae, Purple Martin, Pyrrhuloxia, Sage Thrasher, Clay-colored Sparrow, Prairie Falcon, Lawrence's Goldfinch, Lincoln's Sparrow, Anna's Hummingbird, Tricolored Blackbird, Black Phoebe, Phainopepla, MacGillivray's Warbler, Grasshopper Sparrow, Sage Sparrow, American Gray Flycatcher, Least Grebe, Rosy boa, Common Poorwill, Green-tailed Towhee, Ctenosaura hemilopha, Greater Roadrunner, California ground squirrel, Crotalus enyo, California Towhee, Brush Rabbit, Guadalupe Junco, Canyon Wren, Tree Swallow, Xantus's Murrelet, White-winged Dove, Loggerhead Shrike, Cassin's Auklet, California Whipsnake, Baja California Rat Snake, Black Oystercatcher, Warbling Vireo, Hooded Oriole, Cassin's Kingbird, Crotalus oreganus helleri, Red-breasted Sapsucker, California Gnatcatcher, Oak Titmouse, Elf Owl, Vermilion Flycatcher, Craveri's Murrelet, Juniper Titmouse, Black-vented Shearwater, Lewis's Woodpecker, Baja Pygmy-owl, Cactus Wren, Costa's Hummingbird, Varied Bunting, California Thrasher, Gilded Flicker, Lesser Nighthawk, Scott's Oriole, Bell's Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Gila Woodpecker, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Inca Dove, Le Conte's Thrasher, Rock Wren, White-throated Swift, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Red-naped Sapsucker, Varied Thrush, Cassin's Vireo, Hutton's Vireo, Verdin, Cassin's Finch, Black-chinned Sparrow, Belding's Yellowthroat, Violet-green Swallow, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Gray Vireo, Xantus's Hummingbird, Desert night lizard, Garden Slender Salamander, Cactus mouse, Coast horned lizard, Centruroides exilicauda, Gray Thrasher, Baja California rock squirrel, Baja California Pronghorn, Dulzura Kangaroo Rat, Phyllodactylus nocticolus. Excerpt: Dendroica petechia is a New World warbler species or superspecies; the subspecies group around D. (p.) aestiva is increasingly treated as good species Dendroica aestiva (Yellow Warbler) again. The name for the entire cryptic species complex is Mangrove Warbler, and another group of subspecies is known as Golden Warbler. Sensu lato, they make up the most widespread Dendroica species, breeding in almost the whole of North America and down to northern South America. Female Mangrove Warbler at Las Bachas, Santa Cruz (Galápagos Islands) Breeding male Golden Warbler, Washington-Slagbaai National Park, Bonaire (Netherlands Antilles) Breeding male aureola Mangrove Warbler at Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz (Galápagos Islands) Breeding female Yellow Warbler, Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin (USA)Other than in male breeding plumage, all subspecies are very similar. Winter, female and immature birds all have similarly greenish-yellow uppersides and are a duller yellow below. Young males soon acquire breast and, where appropriate, head coloration. Females are somewhat duller, most notably on the head. In all, the remiges and rectrices are blackish olive with yellow edges, sometimes appearing as an indistinct wing-band on the former. The eyes and the short thin beak are dark, while the feet are lighter or darker olive-buff. The 35 subspecies of D. petechia sensu lato can be divided into three main groups according to the males' head color in the breeding season. Each of these ...