Ovenbird
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| Seiurus aurocapillus |
The Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
These birds have white underparts streaked with black and olive-brown upperparts. They have a white eye ring, pinkish legs, a thin pointed bill and e cheek. They have an orange line on the top of the crown bordered on each side with dark brown.
Their breeding habitat is mature deciduous and mixed forests, especially sites with less undergrowth, across Canada and the eastern United States. The nest is a domed structure with a side entrance, the "oven", placed on the ground.
These birds migrate to the southeastern United States, the West Indies,and from Mexico to northern South America.
They forage on the ground in dead leaves, sometimes hovering or catching insects in flight. These birds mainly eat insects, spiders and snails, also seeds in winter.
The song of this bird is a loud teacher-teacher-teacher.
This bird is vulnerable to nest parasitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird, but its numbers appear to be stable.