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Bay-breasted Warbler Dendroica castanea   [A Wilson, 1810]
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Order: Passeriformes Family: Parulidae
BTO Codes: , EURING No: 17540
Number in Britain: Fewer than 20 records
Conservation Status:
UK: Unlisted
European: Not evaluated
Global: Least Concern
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Status in UK: (A)  Accidental
Subspecies: Monotypic
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Length: . cm Wingspan: - Weight: M/F: 13 g    
Scientific name from: Gr.: dendron=tree + oikos=living and L.: castaneus=chestnut-coloured (from Gr.: kastanon=the chestnut)
World Distribution: BREEDS: n North America, WINTERS: Panama & nw South America
Habitat: Boreal coniferous forest
Diet: Mostly insects and spiders, some fruit
TitBit: Numbers of Bay-breasted Warblers on their North American breeding grounds fluctuate markedly in response to the abundance of their prey, the spruce budworm.  
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Records and Distribution
First Record: Cornwall, 1995 (Ferguson, D. 1997. British Birds 90:444-449)
Total Number of Records (1958-2004): 1 Summary of Records by Year
Most Likely to Occur in: Too few records
Most Recent County Records:
   Scotland: No Records
   North-east England: No Records
   North-west England: No Records
   English Midlands: No Records
   Eastern England: No Records
   South-east England: No Records
   South-west England: Cornwall (1995),
   Wales: No Records
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Other Names
Gaelic: Welsh:
Danish: Brunhalset sanger Dutch: Kastanjezanger
Finnish: Rusorintakerttuli French: Paruline ā poitrine baie
German: Braunbrustwaldsänger Hungarian:
Icelandic: Irish:
Italian: Dendroica pettocastano Norwegian:
Polish: Lasķwka kasztanowata Portuguese:
Spanish: Reinita castaņa Swedish: Brunbröstad skogssångare
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See Also:
All About Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Gough, G.A. et al. (1998) Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter
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These data should be cited as:
Robinson, R.A. (2005) BirdFacts: profiles of birds occurring in Britain & Ireland (v1.21, Jun 2008). BTO Research Report 407, BTO, Thetford (http://www.bto.org/birdfacts)

 

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