Blackpoll Warbler Images

Blackpoll Warbler Images, Facts and Information:

Setophaga striata

• Blackpoll Warblers are small songbirds with black-and-white streaked backs, white faces marked with black caps and malar stripes, pale underparts, pink legs, and thin pointed bills. Males in breeding plumage are more distinctly marked than females.
• Blackpoll Warblers are long-distance migrants. They breed in boreal forests of Alaska and Canada and migrate to wintering grounds in northern South America. During migration they pass through much of the eastern United States, often crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a nonstop flight exceeding 1,500 miles.
• Blackpoll Warblers nest in spruce and fir forests, typically using dense conifers at northern and high-elevation sites. During migration they can be found in woodlands, parks, and coastal thickets.
• Blackpoll Warblers eat insects, spiders, and other small arthropods, and will also consume berries and fruit during migration.
  Blackpoll Warblers lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in about 11 to 12 days. Both parents feed the young.
• The high-pitched song of the Blackpoll Warbler is a thin series of sharp “tsi tsi tsi” notes, often barely audible to human ears.
• A group of warblers can be called a “confusion”, “fall”, or “bouquet” of warblers.
• The oldest known Blackpoll Warbler was 8 years old.

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