OTHER NAMES: N/A
Latin Etymology: Parkesia (for ornithologist Kenneth Parkes) noveboracensis ("New York")
Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis) at Tarcoles, Costa Rica - November 2025
Featured Subspecies: Unknown
Weight: 13-25g / Length: 12-15cm / Wingspan: 21-24cm
NO UK STATUS / IUCN Red List: Least Concern
Despite the name and appearance, actually a member of the New World Warblers. However, it does have a similar niche to thrushes with a large focus in its diet on invertibrates taken from the ground including worms and molluscs as one expects from species like song thrush in Europe. Their breeding range in largely in Alaska, Canada and New England, and they Winter in Central America, the Carribean and the North of South America.
Related Species:
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus: Parkesia
SUBSPECIES: undecided - either none or P. n. limnaeus, P. n. notibilis, P. n. noveboracensis
- Sighting Locations -
A common and widespread Wintering species
- COSTA RICA 2025 TRIP: Seen at Tarcoles
Further Notes: BirdForum Opus, IUCN Red List, RSPB, Wikipedia, Xeno-canto
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