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Pine Warbler

Dendroica pinusOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: PIWA Scientific Name: DENPIN ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178914

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: All-purpose
Eye Color: Brown.
Head Pattern: Plain, Eyering (complete or broken)
Crown Color: Olive-gray
Forehead Color: Olive-gray
Nape Color: Olive-gray
Throat Color: Yellow
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Length Range: 13 cm (5.25 in)
Weight: 11 g (0.4 oz)
Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color: White, Yellow, Olive
Underparts: Yellow with faint brown streaking.
Upperparts: Olive-green
Back Pattern: Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Solid

Flight

Topo Map: Perching-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.
Wingspan Range: 22 cm (8.5 in)
Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Olive-green
Under Tail: White
Leg Color: Black

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Pine Warbler

Pine Warbler: Medium 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. It is the only warbler that eats large quantities of seeds, usually pine. One of the earliest breeding warblers.

● Song: "tsup"

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

● Breeding & 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.

● 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.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Range & 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.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common to common

^MigrationNorthern birds migrate

^Weight0.4 Ounces

Perching-like Head

Perching-like Body

Perching-like Flight

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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