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American Redstart

Setophaga ruticilla
Passeriformes
Parulidae

Sound courtesy of Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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American Redstarts are among the most common migratory birds found in coffee plantations in Latin America. They eat the coffee berry borer and may help reduce infestations of this crop-damaging beetle.

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Range map
Map courtesy of The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

Bibliography
Jones, Jason; Perazzi, Paulo Ramoni; Carruthers, Erin H.; Robertson, Raleigh J. 2000. "Sociality and foraging behavior of the Cerulean Warbler in Venezuelan shade-coffee plantations." The Condor, 102: 958-962.
Kellermann, JL; Johnson, MD; Stercho, AM; Hackett, SC. 2008. "Ecological and economic services provided by birds on Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee farms." Conservation Biology, 22(5): 1177-1185.
Wunderle, Joseph M. Jr.; Latta, Steven C. 1996. "Avian abundance in sun and shade coffee plantations and remnant pine forest in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic." Ornitologia Neotropical, 7: 19-34.