Santa Marta warbler

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| name = Santa Marta warbler

| image = Myiothlypis basilica.jpg

| status = NT

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2021 |title=Myiothlypis basilica |volume=2021 |page=e.T22721982A192245427 |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22721982/192245427 |access-date=13 November 2021}}

| genus = Myiothlypis

| species = basilica

| authority = (Todd, 1913)

| synonyms = Basileuterus basilicus

| range_map = Basileuterus basilicus map.svg

}}

The Santa Marta warbler (Myiothlypis basilica) is a species of bird in the family Parulidae.

It is endemic to the Santa Marta Mountains in Colombia.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest.

It is threatened by habitat loss.

The Santa Marta warbler was formerly placed in the genus Basileuterus. It was moved to the genus Myiothlypis based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2012.{{ cite journal | last1=Gutiérrez-Pinto | first1=N. | last2=Cuervo | first2=A.M. | last3=Miranda | first3=J. | last4=Pérez-Emán | first4=J.L. | last5=Brumfield | first5=R.T. | last6=Cadena | first6=C.D. | title=Non-monophyly and deep genetic differentiation across low-elevation barriers in a neotropical montane bird (Basileuterus tristriatus; Aves: Parulidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | year=2012 | volume=64 | issue=1 | pages=156–165 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.011 | pmid=22484358 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223965759 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers | website=IOC World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/warblers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=21 September 2019 }}

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