Masked Yellowthroat

Geothlypis aequinoctialis (Gmelin, JF, 1789)

Masked Yellowthroat, Geothlypis aequinoctialis, is a passerine warbler of the family Parulidae that breeds in South America, from Venezuela and Colombia to northern Amazonian Brazil, and on Trinidad. It is a monotypic species. The bird was first described in 1789. Its range is split into two main parts, one in central Colombia and western Venezuela, and a larger one across much of Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and into northern Brazil, with Trinidad included and Tobago excluded. It uses damp grassland, marshy thickets, forest edges, clearings, flooded savanna, Amazonian islands and shores, and some farmed and wetland sites.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Parulidae — New World Warblers

Breeding range

South America: Venezuela and Colombia to n Amazonian Brazil and Trinidad