Ovenbird

(Seiurus aurocapilla)

Conservation Status
IUCN Red List

LC - Least Concern

NatureServe

N5B - Secure Breeding

SNRB - Unranked Breeding

Minnesota

not listed

 
 
Description

 

 

Size

5¾ to 6 in length

9½ wingspan

 

Voice

 

Similar Species

 
Habitat

Breeding: Mature deciduous and mixed forests with little understory growth

Migration: Thickets, woodlands

Ecology

Migration

 

 

Nesting

 

 

Food

Worms, snails, spiners, and insects; sometimes seeds.

Distribution

Occurrence

Common

 

Maps

The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union All Seasons Species Occurrence Map

Taxonomy

Class

Aves (birds)

Order

Passeriformes (perching birds)

Family

Parulidae (New World warblers, wood warblers)

Genus

Seiurus (ovenbirds)

   

Ovenbird is the only species in the genus Seiurus.

   

Subordinate Taxa

Northeastern Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla aurocapilla)

Gray Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla cinereus)

Newfoundland Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla furvior)

   

Synonyms

Seiurus aurocapillus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren

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Other Videos

Ovenbird
The Music of Nature

About

Uploaded on Jul 22, 2010

Ovenbirds are like miniature wood-thrushes, but without the sweet song. They also have an attractive black-bordered, dull orange crown stripe. These males were filmed in a reserve owned by the University of Missouri near Ashland, MO

Singing Ovenbird
Birdchick

About

Uploaded on May 24, 2008

Ovenbird singing

Ovenbird
WIld Bird Video Productions

About

Uploaded on May 8, 2011

Ovenbird singing in a Maine forest. © 2011 Garth McElroy

License at http://www.paya.com/videos/135219

Ovenbird (Emberizidae: Seiurus aurocapilla) Foraging
Carl Barrentine

About

Uploaded on May 12, 2011

A more peaceable view of the often reclusive Ovenbird. Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (12 May 2011).

The Oven Bird
SouthCarolinaETV

About

Published on Oct 9, 2012

Clemson naturalist Patrick McMillan visits with naturalist and Foothills Trail Conference member Heyward Douglass on birding and other wildlife issues. Today they discuss the Oven Bird.

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