Olive warbler | Peucedramidae

Oranjekopzanger | Ocotero

A family with a single species, the Olive Warbler, which lives in pine and pine-oak forest in the highlands from Mexico to Nicaragua, and north into the southwestern United States. It was long counted among the New World warblers, but proved to be an old, separate branch that stands nearer to the finches and pipits. It is warbler-sized, with a fine, pointed bill and fairly long wings. The male has a tawny-orange to ochre head and breast with a black mask through the eye, a grey back and two white wing bars; the female is duller, with a yellowish head and a grey patch on the ear coverts. The Olive Warbler forages high in the crowns of pines, searching branches and needle clusters for insects and their larvae, often in company with other forest birds. The song is a clear, repeated whistled phrase. The nest is a sturdy cup of moss, lichen and rootlets, high in a conifer and often far out from the trunk, with three or four eggs.