Endangered
Whistling Warbler
Catharopeza bishopi
Whistling Warbler is a perching bird in the family Parulidae (order Passeriformes) — Catharopeza bishopi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It has a dusty-black plumage, with a dark head and bill. Some interpretations of the whistling warbler have stated that they have a medium-brown plumage. A bright white ring surrounds the eye, with a hazel iris.
The whistling warbler's length ranges from 5 ½ inches to 5 ¾ inches. Their wings are around 2 ¾" long, the tail is about 2 ½ in", the tarsus is ~7/8 inches, and their wingspan is approximately 8 ½ inches in length.
Published measurements include mass about 15.1.
Range and habitat
Whistling warblers inhabit the hills and mountains of St. Vincent island, among them Richmond Peak, and Grand Bonhomme. There are also active and inactive volcanoes present on the island.
It is endemic to the island of Saint Vincent in the Lesser Antilles.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Whistling warblers forage at low heights usually from the ground to 4 m, and at most 15 m. While foraging they hop from branch to branch with a "cocked tail".
The whistling warbler often flicks this "cocked tail" swiftly when observed foraging. Chicks with developed wings from only a few days to a week old were seen out of the nest.
In crisis
It is threatened by habitat loss.
Whistling Warbler is 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 Whistling Warbler, Wikidata item Q522449. 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.
