Blackpoll Warbler

Dendroica striataOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: BLPW Scientific Name: DENSTR ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178913

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Blackpoll Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler: Medium-sized warbler with black-streaked, gray upperparts, white underparts, and black-streaked white sides. Head has black cap and prominent white cheek patch. Bill is black. Wings are dark with two white bars. Pink legs and feet. Swift, direct flight with rapidly beating wings.

● Song: "seet-seet-seet-seet-seet-seet-seet-seet"

● Foraging & Feeding: Blackpoll Warbler: Eats aphids, beetles, mosquitoes, ants, wasps, gnats, and spiders. Actively chases insects; sometimes catches flying insects in mid-air.

● Breeding & nesting: Blackpoll Warbler: Three to five brown or lavender marked, white eggs are laid in a twig-and-grass nest, often lined with feathers, and usually built in a small evergreen tree. Female incubates eggs for about 12 days.

● Similar species: Blackpoll Warbler: Black-and-white Warbler has striped crown. Bay-breasted Warbler is has black legs, buff undertail coverts, and fewer streaks on breast. Pine Warbler lacks black streaks on back, has black legs, and has more yellow on throat and breast.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Range & Habitat: Blackpoll Warbler: Breeds from Alaska and northern Canada to southern Canada and northern New England. Spends winters in the tropics. Preferred breeding habitat is coniferous forests; during migration found chiefly in tall trees.

^BreedingMonogamous, Polygamous

^PopulationAbundant

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.5 Ounces

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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