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American redstart : ウィキペディア英語版 | American redstart
The American redstart (''Setophaga ruticilla'') is a New World warbler. It is unrelated to the Old World redstarts. It derives its name from the male's red tail, ''start'' being an old word for tail. ==Description==
The American redstart is a smallish warbler. It measures in total length and has a wingspan of . Its length is boosted by a relatively long tail and it is one of the lightest birds in its family.〔Ridgway, R. 1902. ''The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America''. U.S. National Museum Bulletin no. 50.〕 Weight is considerably less in winter than in summer. Males weigh an average of in summer but drop to in winter, while females drop even more from an average of to an average of .〔Holmes, R. T. 1986. ''Foraging behavior of forest birds: male-female differences''. Wilson Bulletin, 98:196-213.〕〔Sherry, T. W. and R. T. Holmes. 1996. ''Winter habitat limitation in Neotropical-Nearctic migrant birds: implications for population dynamics and conservation''. Ecology 77:36-48.〕 Among standard measurements, the wing chord is , the tail is , the bill is and the tarsus is .〔''New World Warblers (Helm Field Guides)'' by Jon Curson. Christopher Helm Publishers (1993). 978-0713639322.〕 The breeding males are unmistakable, jet black above apart from large orange-red patches on their wings and tails. Their breast sides are also orange, with the rest of their underparts colored white. In their other plumages, American redstarts display green in their upperparts, along with black central tails and grey heads. The orange patches of the breeding males are replaced by yellow in the plumages of the females and young birds. Orange and yellow coloration is due to the presence of carotenoids; males possess the red carotenoid canthaxanthin and the yellow carotenoids canary xanthophyll A and B, all of which mix together to produce an orange color, while the females possess only the yellow carotenoids. Recent research indicates that an age and sex effect on observed color attributes of hue, brightness, and saturation exists in American redstarts, with the exception for saturation, which only showed an age effect. Their song is a series of musical ''see'' notes. Their call is a soft ''chip''.
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