An ABA Code 4 Fan-tailed Warbler, the only representative of the genus, Euthlypis, was found on 18 May in Melrose Woods near Melrose, New Mexico, by Gary Froehlich.
Fan-tailed Warbler at an antswarm in Mexico, 29 March '09. Photograph courtesy of Brian Gibbons.
Euthlypis lacrymosa has only been reported a few times in the ABA Area, most records from Arizona, but one record from Big Bend National Park, TX, in late summer 2007. This unique warbler is a resident from northwestern Mexico (Sonora and southern Tamaulipas) south to western Nicaragua. The northern populations are migratory (ABA Checklist, Seventh Edition). With its distinctive broken white eye ring and white loral spot, the facial pattern, to some, appears as a bird shedding a tear, thus the species name, lacrymosa. The appropriate common name, fan-tailed, comes from this bird's habit of pumping its tail up-and-down and moving it from side-to-side while spreading the feathers open as it walks along the ground.
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