Leiothlypis celata

Formerly placed in the genus Vermivora (AOU 1983, 1998) or Oreothlypis (AOU 2010). Transferred to Leiothlypis by AOS (2019).

Large range in North America; large population size; many subpopulations; no known major threats but apparently undergoing a slow decline.

Breeding range extends from western and northern Alaska, Yukon, Mackenzie, northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba, northern Ontario, central Quebec, and central Labrador south to northwestern Baja California, Nevada (locally), southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and extreme western Texas, and, east of the Rockies, to southern Saskatchewan, southern Manitoba, northeastern North Dakota (probably), central Ontario, south-central Quebec, and southern Labrador (AOU 1998). Winter range extends from coastal British Columbia (rare) south coastally to coastal California, and from northern California, southern Nevada, central Arizona, southern New Mexico (rare), Texas( not Panhandle), central Oklahoma, central Arkansas, and across the southeastern United States to Virginia (casually northward) south to southern Baja California, Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize (questionably), Yucatan Peninsula( rarely), and southern Florida, rarely to Bermuda and the Bahama Islands (AOU 1998)..

This species is represented by a large number of occurrences (subpopulations).

No major threats are known. Grazing and logging practices that reduce understory thickets reduce habitat suitability for this species.