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Blue-winged Warbler
The Blue-winged Warbler, Vermivora pinus, is a fairly common New World warbler.
It breeds in eastern North America in southern Ontario and the eastern USA. Its range is extending northwards, where it is replacing the very closely related Golden-winged Warbler.
It is migratory, wintering in southern Central America. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe
Identification Tips:
• Length: 4.25 inches
• Small, active, insect-eating bird
• Thin, very pointed bill
• Yellow head and underparts
• White undertail coverts
• Black eyeline
• Olive nape and back
• Blue-gray wings with two white wing bars
• Pinkish legs
• Females and immatures have paler yellow heads and breasts
Similar species:
The yellow, unstreaked head and underparts and the black eyeline identify the Blue-winged Warbler. The Blue-winged Warbler occassionally hybridizes with the Golden-winged Warbler to produce offspring with characteristics of both parents.
Blue-winged Warblers feed on insects, and spiders.
Their breeding habitat is open scrubby areas. Blue-winged Warblers nest on the ground or low in a bush, laying 4-7 eggs in a cup nest.
Their song is a series of buzzing notes. The call is a sharp chip.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
An E. O. Wilson quotation
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