{{Short description|Species of bird}} {{Use British English|date=October 2025}} {{Speciesbox | name = Bahama warbler | image = Bahama Warbler, South Abaco, Bahamas 1.jpg | status = EN | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2020 |title=''Setophaga flavescens'' |volume=2020 |article-number=e.T22724802A153768531 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22724802A153768531.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref> | genus = Setophaga | species = flavescens | authority = (Todd, 1909) | synonyms = {{Specieslist |Dendroica flavescens| |Setophaga dominica flavescens| |Dendroica dominica flavescens| }} | range_map = Setophaga flavescens map.svg }}
The '''Bahama warbler''' ('''''Setophaga flavescens''''') is an endangered species of bird in the family Parulidae that is endemic to The Bahamas.
== Taxonomy == The taxon was formerly lumped with the yellow-throated warbler (''Setophaga dominica''), until the Bahama warbler was elevated to full species in 2011, on the distinctions of that the Bahama warbler is restricted to pinewoods, possesses a longer bill, and has small variations in plumage, most obviously in having the yellow of the throat extending down the entire underparts to the legs, versus white on the lower breast and belly in yellow-throated warbler.<ref>Chesser, R. Terry, Richard C. Banks, F. Keith Barker, Carla Cicero, Jon L. Dunn, Andrew W. Kratter, Irby J. Lovette, Pamela C. Rasmussen, J. V. Remsen, James D. Rising, Douglas F. Stotz, Kevin Winker. 2011. Fifty-second supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-List of North American Birds. Auk 128(3):600-613.</ref><ref name="Hoyo">{{cite book | last=Hoyo | first=Josep del | title=All the Birds of the World | publisher=Lynx edicions | publication-place=Barcelona | date=2020 | isbn=978-84-16728-37-4 | page=798}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== It is endemic to Bahamian pineyards on Grand Bahama, Little Abaco and Great Abaco islands.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rollingharbour.com/2021/02/20/bahama-warblers-on-abaco/|title=Bahama Warblers on Abaco|date=20 February 2021}}</ref>
==Behavior== The Bahama warbler forages amidst pine needles in the higher branches of pine forests, occasionally descending to forage in the shrubs of the understory. It also uses its long bill to probe under the bark of tree trunks in search of insects. No other warblers in the region feed along trunks as extensively as the Bahama warbler.<ref>eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: https://ebird.org/caribbean/news/bahama-warbler</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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