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Adult males have olive upperparts and bright yellow throats and breasts; females and immatures display upperparts which are olive-brown. Their throats and breasts are paler. The adult male pine warbler looks somewhat similar to the yellow-throated vireo which may cause some identification problems.
Kirtland's warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii), also known in Michigan by the common name jack pine bird, [3] [4] or the jack pine warbler, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family . Nearly extinct just years ago, populations have recovered due to the conservation efforts of Phil Huber and the U.S. Forest Service .
According to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, the pine warbler is the only warbler that eats large quantities of seeds, primarily those of pines. This seed-eating ability means pine warblers ...
A garden warbler (Sylviidae), giving its prolonged warbling song A wood warbler (Phylloscopidae) A magnolia warbler (Parulidae) Various Passeriformes (perching birds) are commonly referred to as warblers. They are not necessarily closely related to one another, but share some characteristics, such as being fairly small, vocal, and insectivorous.
Many of the species show some sexual dimorphism, with distinctive male and female plumages, with the males in many having black or bright grey on the heads, replaced by brown, brownish-grey or similar dusky colours in females; about a third of the species also have a conspicuous red eye ring in males.
The yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata) is a regular North American bird species that can be commonly observed all across the continent.Its extensive range connects both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the U.S. as well as Canada and Central America, with the population concentrated in the continent's northern reaches during the breeding season and migrating southwards to southern ...
This species has mainly blue-gray upper parts, with a greenish back patch and two white wing bars. The breast is yellowish shading into the white belly. The summer male has bluish and rufous breast bands and prominent white eye crescents. At the end of the breeding season, individuals molt into a duller version of the breeding plumage.
The willow warbler is one of around 80 species in the Phylloscopus genus, which combines the ancient Greek words for leaf, phullon, and skopos, meaning seeker. Trochilus is the ancient Greek word ...