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Bird name:

Pine Warbler

Dendroica pinus

Order

PASSERIFORMES

Family

Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Code 4

PIWA

Code 6

DENPIN

ITIS

178914

Breeding Location:

Forest

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Fairly common to common

Egg Color:

White with brown flecks at large end

Number of Eggs:

3 - 5

Incubation Days:

Egg Incubator:

Both sexes

Nest Material:

Lined with feathers, weeds, grass, bark, pine needles, twigs, and spider webs.

Migration:

Northern birds migrate

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General

Pine Warbler: Medium-sized warbler with plain olive-gray upperparts, yellow throat and breast, blurry-streaked sides, and white belly and undertail coverts. Wings are gray with two white bars. Female and juvenile are duller.

Range and Habitat

Pine Warbler: Breeds from southeastern Manitoba, southern Ontario, and Maine south to eastern Texas, the Gulf Coast, and Florida. Spends winters in the southern states, occasionally north to New England. Prefers pine forests.

Breeding and Nesting

Pine Warbler: Three to five white eggs with brown flecks at large end are laid in a compact, well-concealed nest built among pine needles near the tip of a horizontal branch, usually higher than 20 feet. Eggs are incubated for about 10 days by both parents.

Foraging and Feeding

Pine Warbler: Diet consists of insects, fruits, and seeds; forages in trees and shrubs.

Readily Eats

Sugar Water, Fruit, Nut Pieces

Vocalization

Pine Warbler: The song is musical and somewhat melancholy.

Similar Species

Pine Warbler: Yellow-throated Vireo has spectacles and a thicker bill. Blackburnian Warbler has white streaks on back and a broader stripe behind eye. Blackpoll Warbler has streaks on back and has pale yellow underparts and yellow legs and feet. Bay-breasted Warbler has brown crown and streaked back. Cape May Warbler has more heavily streaked breast and pale mark on side of neck.

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Undertail coverts

Small feathers that cover the areas where the retrices (tail feathers) attach to the rump.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Belly

The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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