VCE coauthors account on a little-known Hispaniolan endemic: White-winged Warbler

One of the rarest and least-known of Hispaniola's 31 endemic bird species, the White-winged Warbler (Xenoligea montana), now has a comprehensive account published on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Neotropical Birds web site. Former VCE staff biologist Julie Hart and VCE Director Chris Rimmer co-authored this account, drawing heavily on studies conducted by VCE and our Hispaniolan colleagues over nearly 20 years. Read about VCE's discovery of the species' nest in 2004, its basic life history and ecology, and how much remains to be learned. The White-winged Warbler awaits a biographer!

Photo: White-winged Warbler feeding a recently-fledged juvenile in Sierra de Bahoruco, Dominican Repblic, June 2004. This is the only photo in existence of the species in juvenal plumage. Courtesy of Eladio Fernandez.