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Males display a rich black swath from the chin to the upper breast, hence the name black-throated green warbler.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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There is the eyebrowed thrush, from Siberia, the American purple gallinule, from the southern states of the US, and the black-throated thrush, also from Siberia.
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Aura prayed that he would fly, join the black-throated jay in the ceiba tree.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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At upper elevations in extensions of boreal forest, red-breasted nuthatches, black-throated green warblers, golden-crowned warblers, golden-crowned kinglets, and northern juncos forage in red spruce and Fraser fir trees.
Central Appalachian Broadleaf Forest - Coniferous Forest - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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The black-throated sparrow is one of the most abundant birds of the province.
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The pinyon jay is typical of the pinyon-juniper forest, which also supports the plain titmouse and black-throated gray warbler, along with flocks of bushtits.
Nevada-Utah Mountains Semidesert - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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Summer residents include the chipping sparrow, nighthawk, black-throated gray warbler, northern cliff swallow, lark sparrow, and mourning dove.
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Noteworthy species include lesser rhea Pterocnemia pennata, Andean condor Vultur gryphus, which form nesting and roosting colonies called condoreras, torrent duck Merganetta armata, black-throated finch Melanodera melanodera, and others.
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Passerines such as the black-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) or robin accentor (Prunella rubeuloides) winter in this ecoregion.
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Birds include golden eagles, several western hawk species, ravens, roadrunners, mourning doves and black-throated sparrows.
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