What is "hooded warbler"

Hooded \Hood"ed\, a.

1. Covered with a hood.

2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.

3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.

4. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

   2. Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.

      Hooded crow, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow.

      Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull.

      Hooded merganser. See Merganser.

      Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal ( Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap.

      Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser.

      Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc.

      Hooded warbler, a small American warbler ( Sylvania mitrata).

The hooded warbler (Setophaga citrina) is a New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America and across the eastern United States and into southernmost Canada, ( Ontario). It is migratory, wintering in Central America and the West Indies. Hooded warblers are very rare vagrants to western Europe.

Recent genetic research has however suggested that the type species of Wilsonia (hooded warbler W. citrina) and of Setophaga ( American redstart S. ruticilla) are closely related and should be merged into the same genus. As the name Setophaga (published in 1827) takes priority over Wilsonia (published in 1838), hooded warbler would then be transferred as Setophaga citrina. This change has been accepted by the North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithologists' Union, and the IOC World Bird List. The South American Classification Committee continues to list the bird in the genus Wilsonia.