Rufous-capped Warbler Basileuterus rufifrons Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delatrii Arañero Cabecirrufo

Rufous-capped Warbler Basileuterus rufifrons
(aka Chestnut-capped Warbler Basileuterus delatrii)

Colombian name: Arañero Cabecirrufo

Rufous-capped Warbler, Minca, Magdalena, Colombia, April 2012 - click for larger image

Colombia and Honduras

The Rufous-capped Warbler is distributed from Mexico through Central America to northern Colombia. See the distribution map at NatureServe.

In the past, the yellow-bellied group of sub-species distributed from Guatemala southwards has been treated as a full species by some authorities and called Chestnut-capped Warbler B. delatrii.

It is found in the undergrowth of woodland and secondary growth.

It has a distinctive rufous chestnut crown and ear-coverts separated by a long white eye stripe. In Colombia the sub-species is B. r. mesochrysus which belongs to the delattrii group in which the underparts are all yellow.

The bird in photos 2 and 3 was recorded by Jeremy Minns.

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Rufous-capped Warbler, Copan Ruinas, Honduras, March 2015 - click for larger image

The bird in photo 4 was photographed in Honduras and is of the sub-species B. r. delattrii. Note that, compared to the Colombian birds it has no grey on the collar.

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