Vermivora

Vermivora
Blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Parulidae
Genus:	Vermivora Swainson, 1827
Type species
Vermivora solitaria[1] Swainson, 1827
Species
See text.

Vermivora is a genus of New World warblers.

Species

Three species are accepted in the genus,[2] one of them probably extinct:

Genus Vermivora – Swainson, 1827 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
†Bachman's warbler	Vermivora bachmanii (Audubon, 1833)	Formerly southeast United States and wintering in Cuba	Size: Habitat: Diet:	EX
Blue-winged warbler	Vermivora cyanoptera Olson & Reveal, 2009	southern Ontario and the eastern United States	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Golden-winged warbler	Vermivora chrysoptera Linnaeus, 1766	south-central Canada and in the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern to north-central United States	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT

Several additional species were formerly included in Vermivora,[3] but have now been transferred to the genus Leiothlypis:[2][4]

• Tennessee warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
• Orange-crowned warbler Leiothlypis celata
• Nashville warbler Leiothlypis ruficapilla
• Virginia's warbler Leiothlypis virginiae
• Colima warbler Leiothlypis crissalis
• Lucy's warbler Leiothlypis luciae

References

1. "Parulidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
2. IOC World Bird List Family Parulidae Archived May 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
3. Sibley, D. (2000). The Sibley Field Guide to Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-45122-6.
4. Lovette, I. J. et al. (2010). A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (2): 753-770. Abstract