About Oreothlypis gutturalis (Cabanis, 1861)
The adult flame-throated warbler, with scientific name Oreothlypis gutturalis (Cabanis, 1861), is 12 cm (4.7 in) long and weighs 10 g (0.35 oz). It has slate grey upperparts, with black coloring on its back, lores, and around the eye. Its throat and breast are vermilion, which contrasts with its whitish belly. The sexes are almost identical, but the black mask is more extensive on males. Juvenile birds are browner on their upperparts, duller on their underparts, and have a weak buff eyestripe and wing bars. This warbler’s call is a sharp chit, and its song is a buzzing pi pipipipi shwaaaa. This species is a resident breeder found in the Talamancan montane forests of Costa Rica and western Panama. It inhabits canopies, woodland edges, and tree-dotted clearings, and typically occurs from 2,100 m (6,900 ft) up to the timberline. On the Caribbean slope, it may descend to as low as 1,400 m (4,600 ft) during the wet season.
