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Painted Redstart

Myioborus pictus ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A warbler of surpassing beauty, the Painted Redstart is a specialty of the borderlands of the American Southwest. The only member of its genus that regularly occurs in the United States, it is unique among American warblers for its vocalizations and its conspicuous foraging methods.

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Calls

  • Song, call
    Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Songs variable, generally consisting of repeated two-syllable phrases followed by one or more single-syllable chirps. Call a loud, low-pitched "cheeyu," widely described as similar to those of Pine Siskins, but quite unlike the calls of any other warblers

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