Black-throated gray warbler

Black-throated gray warbler
Male
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Parulidae
Genus:	Setophaga
Species:	S. nigrescens
Binomial name
Setophaga nigrescens (Townsend, 1837)
Breeding range   Winter range
Synonyms[2]
Sylvia nigrescens Townsend, 1837 Vermivora nigrescens (Townsend, 1837) Bonaparte, 1838 Sylvicola nigrescens (Townsend, 1837) Audubon, 1839 Sylvia halseii Giraud, 1841 Mniotilta nigrescens (Townsend, 1837) Gray, 1848 Rhimanphus nigrescens (Townsend, 1837) Cabanis, 1850 Sylvicola nigricans Henry, 1855 Dendroica nigrescens (Townsend, 1837) Sclater, 1862

The black-throated gray warbler or black-throated grey warbler (Setophaga nigrescens) is a passerine bird of the New World warbler family Parulidae. It is 13 cm (5.1 in) long and has gray and white plumage with black markings. The male has the bold black throat of its name, and black stripes on its head, as well as black streaks on its flanks; the female is a paler version of the male, with a white throat and less distinct black markings on the flanks and wings. It breeds in western North America from British Columbia to New Mexico, and winters in Mexico and the southwestern United States. The habitats it prefers are coniferous and mixed forests and scrubland, especially those with pinyon pines, junipers, sagebrush, and oaks. Its nest is an open cup of plant fibers lined with feathers, built a few metres from the ground in the branches of a tree or shrub. Three to five eggs are laid, and young are fed by both parents. Common in its breeding range, it does not seem to be seriously threatened by human activities, unlike many migratory warblers.