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Blue-winged Warbler

Vermivora pinusOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
Codes: Common Name: BWWA Scientific Name: VERPIN ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178853
Least Concern
 
Blue-winged Warbler
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Overview

Blue-winged Warbler: Medium-sized warbler with olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts. The head is yellow with thin black eye line and olive-green nape. Wings are dark gray with two white bars. When its range overlaps with the Golden-winged Warrbler, it often interbreeds with or displaces it.

Range and Habitat

Blue-winged Warbler: Breeds from Nebraska, central Iowa, southern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, and central New England south through east-central and Atlantic coast states to northern Georgia. Spends winters in the tropics. Preferred habitats include abandoned fields and pastures grown up to saplings; forest clearings and edges with clumps of catbrier, blackberry, and various bushes and young trees.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body


Listen to Call

Similar Sounding

Voice Text

Sings a breathy descending beee-buzzz.

Interesting Facts

 A group of warblers has many collective nouns, including "a bouquet of warblers", "a confusion of warblers", "a fall of warblers", and a "wrench of warblers."


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Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Related Birds

Northern Parula
Golden-winged Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Olive Warbler
Bachman's Warbler
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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Vermivora pinus
Length4.75 Inches
Wingspan7.125 Inches

Blue-winged Warbler

Blue-winged Warbler: Medium-sized warbler with olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts. The head is yellow with thin black eye line and olive-green nape. Wings are dark gray with two white bars. When its range overlaps with the Golden-winged Warrbler, it often interbreeds with or displaces it.

● Song: Sings a breathy descending beee-buzzz.

● Foraging & Feeding: Blue-winged Warbler: Diet consists of insects and spiders; forages in trees and shrubs.

● Breeding & nesting: Blue-winged Warbler: Four to seven brown and gray flecked white eggs are laid in a grass-lined cup of dead leaves and fibers, and built on or very near the ground in thick undergrowth. Incubation ranges from 10 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Blue-winged Warbler: Occasionally hybridizes with Golden-winged Warbler to produce offspring with characteristics of both parents. Some have mostly white underparts (Brewster's Warbler), while some have the yellow plumage of the Blue-winged, but the dark throat of the Golden-winged (Lawrence's Warbler).

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flights of short duration.
Blue-winged Warbler Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Blue-winged Warbler: Breeds from Nebraska, central Iowa, southern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, and central New England south through east-central and Atlantic coast states to northern Georgia. Spends winters in the tropics. Preferred habitats include abandoned fields and pastures grown up to saplings; forest clearings and edges with clumps of catbrier, blackberry, and various bushes and young trees.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationUncommon to fairly common
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.3 Ounces
Perching-like BodyX
UnderpartsX
Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.
UpperpartsX
Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.
Eye lineX
The line of feathers just in front of and behind the eyes. It extends back from the posterior angle of the eye. This can be a useful trait used in identification in the field since it is very noticeable.
NapeX
Also called the hindneck or collar, it is the back of the neck where the head joins the body.
4 and 6 letter alpha codesX

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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ITIS CodesX

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990�s as a cooperative project among several federal agencies to improve and expand upon taxonomic data (known as the NODC Taxonomic Code) maintained by the National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

To find the ITIS page for a bird species go to the ITIS web site advanced search and report page at http://www.itis.gov/advanced_search.html. You can enter the TSN or the common name of the bird. It will return the ITIS page for that bird. Another way to obtain the ITIS page is to use the Google search engine. Enter the string ITIS followed by the taxonomic ID, for example "ITIS 178041" will return the page for the Allen's Hummingbird.

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Parts of a Standing birdX
Head Feathers and MarkingsX
Parts of a Flying birdX