Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Parulidae > Setophaga > Setophaga chrysopariaSetophaga chrysoparia (Golden-cheeked Warbler; Golden-cheeked Wood Warbler)Synonyms: Dendroica chrysoparia Language: Spanish The golden-cheeked warbler (Setophaga chrysoparia [formerly Dendroica chrysoparia]), also known as the gold finch of Texas, is an endangered species of bird that breeds in Central Texas, from Palo Pinto County southwestward along the eastern and southern edge of the Edwards Plateau to Kinney County. The golden-cheeked warbler is the only bird species with a breeding range confined to Texas. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 1.44679 EDGE Score: 2.97422 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 10 grams | | Birth Weight [3] | 1.6 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Temperate western forests | | Wintering Geography [2] | Mexican Highlands | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Mexican pine-oak forests, Mexican highland forests | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 100 % | | Forages - Canopy [4] | 40 % | | Forages - Mid-High [4] | 60 % | | | Female Maturity [5] | 1 year | | Male Maturity [5] | 1 year | | | Clutch Size [7] | 4 | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 21,000 | | Incubation [6] | 12 days | | Maximum Longevity [5] | 8 years | | Migration [8] | Intracontinental |
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Central American pine-oak forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Central forest-grasslands transition |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Chiapas Depression dry forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Edwards Plateau savanna |
United States |
Nearctic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Oaxacan montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Petén-Veracruz moist forests |
Mexico, Guatemala, Belize |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine-oak forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Tamaulipan matorral |
Mexico |
Nearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Veracruz montane forests |
Mexico |
Neotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Dipilto-Jalapa Mountain Range |
Nicaragua |
A1, A2, A3 |
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El Jaguar |
Nicaragua |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Guatemalan Caribbean Slope |
Guatemala |
A1, A3 |
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Maya Mountains and southern reserves |
Belize |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Montecristo |
Guatemala |
A1, A3 |
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Montecristo Forest |
El Salvador |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sacranix |
Guatemala |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Sierra de las Minas-Motagua |
Guatemala |
A1, A2, A3 |
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The Alotepeque Range |
El Salvador |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Volcán Barú National Park |
Panama |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Yalijux |
Guatemala |
A1, A2, A3 |
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Mesoamerica |
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 6W. Andrew Cox and Thomas E Martin. (2009) Breeding Biology of the Three-Striped Warbler in Venezuela: a Contrast between Tropical and Temperate Parulids The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 121:4, 667-678 ♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 8Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.orgEcoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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