WOOD-WARBLERS   -   PARULIDAE

Masked Yellowthroat Geothlypis aequinoctialis velata Chapada de Diamantina, Bahia state, Brazil Male.

Slate-throated Whitestart (Redstart) Myioborus miniatus ballux Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha province, Ecuador. SACC continues to call them redstarts, and all propopsals to that change the name have failed. I just can't call them that; it's such a silly name, and pretty much all recent field guides have adopted the name whitestart.

Wrenthrush Zeledonia coronata Cerro de la Muerte, San José province, Costa Rica. The most aberrant member, formerly separated off in its own monotypic family.

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