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Prairie Warbler

Setophaga discolor

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Parulidae

The prairie warbler (Setophaga discolor) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. Taxonomy The prairie warbler belongs to the genus Setophaga. The species was described by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in a work published in 1807 documenting North American birds, where he called the bird Sylvia discolor, although the genus designation Sylvia was not later retained.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 425,747Cuba · 6,195Canada · 4,232United Kingdom · 1,972Mexico · 775France · 84Netherlands · 21