# Talk:Black-throated gray warbler

Here's the further reading I can't access. —innotata 16:46, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Keane, J. J. 1991. Resource use by Black-throated Gray Warblers (Dendroica nigrescens) in the White and Inyo Mountains of California. M.Sc. thesis, Univ. California, Berkeley, CA. would also be useful. —innotata 13:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)


### Thesis
Greene FP. Ph.D. (1989). Food resources, interspecific aggression, and community organization in a guild of insectivorous birds. Princeton University, United States, New Jersey.


### Articles
Academy Of Natural Sciences Of P. (1997). Black-throated gray warbler Dendroica nigrescens. Birds of North America. vol 0, no 319. p. 1-20.
The Birds of North America Online cited
Alexander HG. (1973). Black-Throated Gray Warbler in Delaware County. Cassinia. vol 54, p. 27-28.
Bagne KE, Purcell KL & Rotenberry JT. (2004). Returning fire to the Sierra Nevada: Response of avian populations to prescribed burning. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts. vol 89, no 28.
Bulluck L, Fleishman E, Betrus C & Blair R. (2006). Spatial and temporal variations in species occurrence rate affect the accuracy of occurrence models. Global Ecology & Biogeography. vol 15, no 1. p. 27-38. doi:10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00170.x
Contreras-Balderas A. (1973). 3 New Bird Entries for the State of Nuevo-Leon Mexico. Publicaciones Biologicas Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas U. vol A, p. (Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon).
Contreras-Balderas S. (1973). Biological Publications Institute of Scientific Investigation Autonomous University of Nuevo-Leon. Publicaciones Biologicas Instituto de Investigaciones Cientificas U. vol A, p. (Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon).
Ga Ornithol Soc Checklist C. (1977). Species Recently Accepted in the Official List of Georgia Birds. Oriole. vol 42, no 1. p. 1-4.
Gehlbach FR. (1967). New Records of Warblers in Texas. Southwestern Naturalist. vol 12, no 1. p. 109-110.
Hagar JC, McComb WC & Emmingham WH. (1996). Bird communities in commercially thinned and unthinned Douglas-fir stands of western Oregon. Wildlife Society Bulletin. vol 24, no 2. p. 353-366. hdl:1957/13596 (open access) [1] JSTOR 3783135
Hayes JP, Weikel JM & Huso MMP. (2003). Response of birds to thinning young Douglas-fir forests. Ecological Applications. vol 13, no 5. p. 1222-1232. [2][3]
Hendricks P. (2004). First nesting record of Black-throated Gray Warbler (Dendroica nigrescens) for Montana. Western North American Naturalist. vol 64, no 4. p. 548-550.
Herndon LR. (1972). Black-Throated Gray Warbler. Migrant. vol 43, no 3. p. 67-68.
Lock PA & Naiman RJ. (1998). Effects of stream size on bird community structure in coastal temperate forests of the Pacific northwest, U.S.A. Journal of Biogeography. vol 25, no 4. p. 773-782. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.2540773.x JSTOR 2846150
Lovette IJ, Bermingham E, Rohwer S & Wood C. (1999). Mitochondrial restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and sequence variation among closely related avian species and the genetic characterization of hybrid Dendroica warblers. Molecular Ecology. vol 8, no 9. p. 1431-1441. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1999.00706.x
Morrison ML, Hall LS, Keane JJ, Kuenzi AJ & Verner J. (1993). Distribution and abundance of birds in the White Mountains, California. Great Basin Naturalist. vol 53, no 3. p. 246-258.https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/wnan/index.php/wnan/article/view/1365
Pavlacky DC, Jr. & Anderson SH. (2001). Habitat preferences of pinyon-juniper specialists near the limit of their geographic range. Condor. vol 103, no 2. p. 322-331. doi:10.1650/0010-5422(2001)103[0322:HPOPJS]2.0.CO;2
Pearson SF & Manuwal DA. (2001). Breeding bird response to riparian buffer width in managed pacific northwest Douglas-fir forests. Ecological Applications. vol 11, no 3. p. 840-853. JSTOR 3061120
Sievert R, Christopher W & Eldredge B. (2000). A new hybrid warbler (Dendroica nigrescens x D. occidentalis) and diagnosis of similar D Townsendi x D. occidentalis recombinants. The Condor. vol 102, no 3. p. 713.
Wallace GE, Wallace EAH, Froehlich DR, Walker B, Kirkconnell A, Torres ES, Carlisle HA & Machell E. (1999). Hermit Thrush and Black-throated Gray Warbler, new for Cuba, and other significant bird records from Cayo Coco and vicinity, Ciego de Avila Province, Cuba, 1995-1997. Florida Field Naturalist. vol 27, no 2. p. 37-51.[4]


### More further reading
This time, papers that I haven't cited yet:

Morrison, Michael L. (1982). "The Structure of Western Warbler Assemblages: Ecomorphological Analysis of the Black-throated Gray and Hermit Warblers" (PDF). The Auk. 99 (3): 303–513.
Morrison, Michael L. (1984). "Influence of Sample Size and Sampling Design on Analysis of a Avian Foraging Behavior" (PDF). The Condor. 86 (2): 146–150.
Rising, J. D. (1988). "Phenetic Relationships among the Warblers in the Dendroica virens Complex and a Record of D. virens from Sonora, Mexico" (PDF). The Wilson Bulletin. 100 (2): 312–316.
Keane, John J.; Morrison, Michael L. (1999). "Temporal Variation in Resource Use by Black-throated Gray Warblers" (PDF). The Condor. 101 (1): 67–75.
Greenberg, Russell; Keeler-Wolf, Todd; Keeler-Wolf, Virginia (1974). "Wood Warbler Populations in the Yolla Bolly Mountains of California" (PDF). Western Birds. 5 (3): 81–90.
—innotata 23:11, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
And yet more, from Biodiversity Heritage Library:

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14459360
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13657426
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14459360
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7631126 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7623411 – Bull U. S. Nat Mus.
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4771461
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8324712 – Catal. Birds British Mus
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19816769 – Colors in North American Land Birds
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8890711
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17541974
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13179534
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28667105
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16794264 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19480430 –Nests and Eggs of North American Birds
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7269624
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25799097
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13524820
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22174551
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22174740
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5083312
—innotata 22:21, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Not peer reviewed, but useful overview that cites sources: http://www.prbo.org/calpif/htmldocs/species/conifer/btywacct.html —innotata 14:25, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Black-throated gray warbler/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs) 09:53, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

I propose to take on this review and will go through the article in detail shortly. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:53, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


### First reading
In general, this is a well-written, sensibly arranged article. A few points:
The synonyms are a bit mixed up and would be better arranged alphabetically.
Thanks for doing the review! They're chronological, that's the typical approach and the most informative approach. —innotata 16:17, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Well why is Dendroica nigrescens last then? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:04, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
OK, I found the authority for this classification. —innotata 19:21, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Good, they are in a logical order now. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:57, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
"The most similar birds to the black-throated gray warbler are the black-and-white and blackpoll warblers, which although black have entirely different patterns" - This is confusing because these birds are not black.
They're marked with black, which is what I've changed it to. —innotata 16:17, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
The distribution of this species is unclear. Its range extends "from southwestern British Columbia" to where?
To Baja, added. —innotata 16:17, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
The subspecies D. n. halseii "occupies the remainder of its range." At this stage you have not dealt with its range so this statement is difficult to interpret.
Nominate is coastal, halseii is inland, so changed it to that. —innotata 16:17, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
"It has spread into parts of Wyoming and Montana only recently, as Juniperus osteosperma has expanded its range due to a warming climate." - Are you stating here that the bird has expanded its range "because" the juniper has increased its range, and did the source specifically mention global warming?
Yes, it mentioned global warming. The juniper species is spreading, and the warbler along with it. —innotata 16:31, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Reference 9 needs attention.
I'll let citation bot write out all those authors when it works… —innotata 16:31, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Looking at reference 10, the "Rabosky & Lovette" paper, I find no mention of this species or Grace's warbler.
It's in Fig. 1 —innotata 16:28, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
" While these two species hybridize commonly, records of hybridization with the black-throated gray warbler are uncommon." - This is somewhat unclear. Which birds hybridise with which?
Done. —innotata 16:28, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
" Incubation and fledging periods are not recorded. It has been recorded giving a distraction display," - Too much repetition of the word "recorded", and the "it" should be replaced with "this bird" or somesuch as the subject of the previous sentence is a time period.
Done. —innotata 16:28, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
That's all for the moment. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:58, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


### Further read through
"... young are fed by both sexes in a pair." - "fed by both parents" would be better.
"... bill lengths 8.4–9.6 cm (3.3–3.8 in)" - These dimensions must be wrong, perhaps it should be millimetres rather than centimetres.
" Among these species, it is usually considered an early offshoot, but genetic studies suggest a close relation to Grace's warbler." - How about "It is usually considered to have diverged early from other species in this group, but genetic studies suggest that it is closely related to Grace's warbler."
"Of these relatives, Townsend's warbler and the hermit warbler overlap with the black-throated gray warbler, but inhabit different habitats." - How about "Of these relatives, the range of the black-throated gray warbler overlaps that of Townsend's warbler and the hermit warbler, but they occur in different habitats."
I made a couple of copyedits, otherwise it is looking pretty good. 12:57, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
Yep, followed all of these fixes/suggestions. —innotata 19:45, 24 July 2014 (UTC)


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Final assessment - I believe this article now reaches the GA criteria. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:22, 25 July 2014 (UTC)