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Worm-eating Warbler

Helmitheros vermivorum

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Parulidae

The worm-eating warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum) is a small New World warbler that breeds in the Eastern United States and migrates to southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America for the winter. It is the only species in the genus Helmitheros. Taxonomy The worm-eating warbler was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 147,100Mexico · 2,267Cuba · 1,071Canada · 639United Kingdom · 622Netherlands · 3France · 1