{"id":3558,"date":"2011-04-26T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2018-04-07T21:29:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:29:05","slug":"hoovers-warbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/26\/hoovers-warbler\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoover’s Warbler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Yellow-rumped Warbler <\/strong>deluge shows no sign of receding, and Jericho Park is pretty much crawling with chipping, singing, flycatching Audubon’s <\/strong>and Myrtle Warblers <\/strong>again today.<\/p>\n

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It’s important–well, I <\/em>think it’s important–to remember that both Audubon’s and Myrtle are polytypic; thus, it’s incorrect to speak of “the Audubon’s subspecies” or “the Myrtle subspecies” of Yellow-rumped Warbler, unless, of course, you’re using the word in the plural. The Myrtle Warblers <\/strong>we see here in Vancouver, the breeding race of northern British Columbia, are Dendroica coronata hooveri<\/em>, differing in measurements and in some plumage characters<\/a> from their eastern, nominate-race cousins.<\/p>\n

This subspecies was described in 1899<\/a> by Richard C. McGregor<\/a>, an adoptive Californian who would later become famous as the doyen of Philippine ornithology. He named his subsp. nov.<\/em> after his college friend Theodore J. Hoover<\/a>, collector of the type specimen and the older brother of Herbert.<\/p>\n

In preparing his original description, McGregor also used specimens taken by Henry Ward Carriger<\/a>, an early California oologist. I don’t know much about Carriger–fill me in if you do–but I was greatly impressed to read that as early as 1898, he had recognized the differences in the call notes of Audubon’s and Myrtle Warblers, a distinction that even today not all birders are aware of.<\/p>\n

The Californians were out in front even then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yellow-rumped Warbler deluge shows no sign of receding, and Jericho Park is pretty much crawling with chipping, singing, flycatching Audubon’s and Myrtle Warblers again today. It’s important–well, I think it’s important–to remember that both Audubon’s and Myrtle are polytypic; thus, it’s incorrect to speak of “the Audubon’s subspecies” or “the Myrtle subspecies” of Yellow-rumped … <\/p>\n

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