Red-faced Warbler

Cardellina rubrifrons (Giraud Jr, 1841)

Red-faced Warbler, Cardellina rubrifrons, is a New World warbler that breeds in the south-west USA and north-west Mexico and spends the non-breeding season in Middle America. It is a bird of montane fir, pine and pine-oak forest, and also uses mixed conifer and deciduous woodland. Its range runs from Arizona and New Mexico south through central Mexico, with further scattered populations in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. It is a near-total migrant, moving south from July and returning north from late February.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Parulidae — New World Warblers

Breeding range

North America, Middle America: sw USA and nw Mexico

Nonbreeding range

Middle America