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Vermivora

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Vermivora
Blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus: Vermivora
Swainson, 1827
Type species
Vermivora solitaria[1]
Swainson, 1827
Species

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Vermivora is a genus of New World warblers.

Species

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Three species are accepted in the genus,[2] one of them probably extinct:

Genus Vermivora Swainson, 1827 – three species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Bachman's warbler

Vermivora bachmanii
(Audubon, 1833)
Formerly southeast United States and wintering in Cuba
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 EX 


Blue-winged warbler

Vermivora cyanoptera
Olson & Reveal, 2009
southern Ontario and the eastern United States
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 LC 


Golden-winged warbler

Vermivora chrysoptera
Linnaeus, 1766
south-central Canada and in the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern to north-central United States
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 NT 




Several additional species were formerly included in Vermivora,[3] but have now been transferred to the genus Leiothlypis:[2][4]

References

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  1. ^ "Parulidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ^ a b IOC World Bird List Family Parulidae Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Sibley, D. (2000). The Sibley Field Guide to Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45122-6.
  4. ^ Lovette, I. J. et al. (2010). A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (2): 753-770. Abstract