Critically Endangered
Semper's Warbler
Leucopeza semperi
Semper's warbler, local name pied-blanc, is a possibly extinct passerine bird of the New World warbler family, Parulidae.
Appearance
It has a dark gray head with a pale superciliary, dark gray upperparts, a grayish-white belly, and brown wings and tail, with a grayish olive-brown wash on its flanks. Its dark gray bill is long and pointed. First-year birds are brownish-gray above, with pale buffish brown underparts and a whiter throat.
Semper's warbler is about 14.5 centimetres (5.7 inches) in length.
Range and habitat
Semper's warbler is endemic to Saint Lucia, living in the undisturbed undergrowth of lower montane rainforests and elfin woodlands. It is endemic to Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Most if not all of its foraging activity took place in forest understory, generally close to the ground. It may nest on or near the ground.
In crisis
Semper's Warbler is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Semper's Warbler, Wikidata item Q882001. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
