Slate-throated Redstart

Myioborus miniatusOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Overview

Slate-throated Redstart: Medium warbler with slate-gray upperparts, black face, throat, red breast, belly, and chestnut-brown crown. The tail is slate-gray with white edges and the wings are black. Insects make up most of its diet caught on the wing and it also forages on the ground.

Range and Habitat

Slate-throated Redstart: Very rare visitor to western Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico; native to northern Mexico south to Central and South America. Preferred habitats include wooded pine-oak canyons.

Listen:

Voice Text

"chee-chee-chee", "churry-churry-churry", "chip"

Slate-throated Redstart

● Song: "chee-chee-chee", "churry-churry-churry", "chip"

● Foraging & Feeding: Slate-throated Redstart: Eats mainly insects; forages on the ground, in low vegetation, and at low to middle level in trees. Gleans, hover-gleans, and catches food in flight.

● Breeding & nesting: Slate-throated Redstart: Three to four white eggs with flecks of gray and red brown are laid in a nest made of conifer needles and grass, and lined with hair and feathers. Incubation ranges from 13 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Slate-throated Redstart: Painted Redstart has white wing patches and darker upperparts.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight for short distances on rapidly beating wings

Slate-throated Redstart Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Slate-throated Redstart: Very rare visitor to western Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico; native to northern Mexico south to Central and South America. Preferred habitats include wooded pine-oak canyons.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationAccidental in North America

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight0.3 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America