Golden-crowned Warbler

Basileuterus culicivorus (Deppe, 1830)

Golden-crowned Warbler, Basileuterus culicivorus, breeds widely across Middle America and South America, with a range that reaches from Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay, and also includes Trinidad. It is a bird of lowland forests. Its plumage is grey-green above and bright yellow below, with a grey head, a yellow crown stripe edged in black, and a yellow or white line over the eye. Young birds are plainer and browner, with the head pattern reduced to the eye stripe. The white-bellied form was once treated as a separate species.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Parulidae — New World Warblers

Breeding range

Middle America, South America: widespread