Bachman's Warbler

Yellow Fronted Warbler ( Vermivora bachmanii )

The yellow forehead Warbler ( Vermivora bachmanii ) is (or was ) a small bird of the family Warbler ( Parulidae ); he is regarded as extinct. The last sighting was in 1961 in South Carolina. The English name " Bachman 's Warbler " chose the describer John James Audubon after his friend, the natural scholar and priest John Bachman, who discovered the bird in 1832. Audubon himself had never seen the bird. He described him after a presentation by John Bachman.

Features

Yellow Fronted Warbler had a body length of about 11 centimeters. The male had a yellow forehead, a black crown and a gray neck. The chin and the bottom were also yellow. On chest plumage was black. The top plumage and the wing coverts wore an olive green color. In the female the forehead was also yellow, but lighter than in the male. The crown and the neck area were gray. The underside plumage was wearing a bright yellow color, the top plumage and the wing coverts were olive green as in the male.

Dissemination

The Yellow Warbler forehead inhabited the swamps and lowland forests in southeastern North America. Their disappearance is mainly attributed to the drainage of the marshes and the destruction of the forests they inhabit.