Black-crested Warbler Myiothlypis nigrocristata Basileuterus nigrocristatus Arañero Cabecinegro

Black-crested Warbler Myiothlypis nigrocristata
(aka Basileuterus nigrocristatus)

Colombian name: Arañero Cabecinegro

Black-crested Warbler, Montaña del Oso, Cundinamarca, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image

Montaña del Oso, Cundinamarca, Colombia and Cruz Conga, Cajamarca, Peru

The Black-crested Warbler is distributed in the Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and south to central Peru as well as the coastal mountains of Venezuela. See the distribution map at Birdlife International.

It is found in forest and cloudforest edges as well as mature secondary growth. It is often seen in clumps of Chusquea bamboo as in photo 3.

It has a black crown stripe, broad yellow superciliaries and black lores.

These birds were recorded by Jeremy Minns giving a "tchick-tchick-tchick" call and a song consisting of a couple of notes followed by an accelerating series of "chew" notes.

Black-crested Warbler, Cruz Conga, Cajamarca, Peru, October 2018 - click for larger image

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