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Hooded Warbler in Audubon's Birds of America. The hooded warbler is a small bird and mid-sized warbler, measuring 13 cm (5.1 in) in length and weighing 9–12 g (0.32–0.42 oz). [13] The hooded warbler has a wingspan of 6.9 in (17.5 cm). [14] It has a plain olive/green-brown back and yellow underparts. Their outer rectrices have whitish vanes ...
The garden warbler (Sylvia borin) is a common and widespread small bird that breeds in most of Europe and in the Palearctic to western Siberia. It is a plain, long-winged and long-tailed typical warbler with brown upperparts and dull white underparts; the sexes are similar and juveniles resemble the adults.
The yellow warbler starts breeding in May/June, while the mangrove warbler breeds all year round. American yellow warblers have been known to raise a brood of young in as little as 45 days, with 75 the norm. Tropical populations, by contrast, need more than 100 days per breeding. Males court the females with songs, singing 3,200 or more per day.
The two families of American warblers are part of another superfamily, which unites them with New World sparrows, buntings, finches, etc. "New World warblers", formerly all in the family Parulidae: Olive warbler, in the monotypic family Peucedramidae; New World warblers, remaining in the family Parulidae
Pine warbler - Dendroica pinus - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter; Pine warbler species account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Pine warbler bird sound at Florida Museum of Natural History; BirdLife species factsheet for Dendroica pinus; Pine warbler photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University) Audio recordings of Pine warbler on Xeno-canto
Wilson's warbler is an insectivore, feeding primarily on insects gleaned from leaves and twigs, or caught by flycatching. [14] Some of these insects include beetles, bees, or caterpillars. Wilson's warbler is an active forager, moving rapidly through shrubs, on the ground, and sometimes in taller trees during the winter. [12]
The name warbler is a misnomer for the New World group of warblers established before the family was split from the Old World warbler in the 1830s. The Random House Dictionary defines "to warble" as "to sing with trills." Most New World warblers do not warble, but rather "lisp, buzz, hiss, chip, rollick, or zip." [6]
The willow warbler is a typical leaf warbler in appearance, 11–12.5 cm (4.3–4.9 in) long and 7–15 g (0.25–0.53 oz) weight. It is greenish brown above and off-white to yellowish below; the wings are plain greenish-brown with no wingbars.