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Palm Warbler

Dendroica palmarumOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: PAWA Scientific Name: DENPAL ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178921

Head

Topo Map: Perching-like Head

Bill Shape: All-purpose
Eye Color: Brown.
Head Pattern: Eyeline, Capped, Eyering (complete or broken), Malar or malar stripe
Crown Color: Red-brown
Forehead Color: Red-brown
Nape Color: Olive-brown
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, Brown, Gray, Yellow, Olive
Underparts: White with red-brown streaks.
Upperparts: Olive-brown with yellow rump.
Back Pattern: Striped or streaked, Solid
Belly Pattern: Solid
Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked

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-brown
Under Tail: White
Leg Color: Gray

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Palm Warbler

Palm Warbler: Medium warbler with olive-brown upperparts and yellow underparts streaked with brown. Cap is chestnut-brown. Western form is grayer overall and has white belly. It pumps its tail up and down more than any other warbler. Despite its name, it lives further north then most other warblers.

● Song: "zwee-zwee-zwee-zwee-zwee-zwee"

● Foraging & Feeding: Palm Warbler: Eats mostly insects during summer; feeds on seeds, berries, insects, and nectar in winter; forages on the ground and in shrubs and trees.

● Breeding & nesting: Palm Warbler: Four or five brown marked, white to cream eggs are laid in a grass nest made from shreds of bark and lined with feathers and rootlets. Nest is built on the ground in a grass clump, often at the base of a small tree or bush. Eggs are incubated for approximately 12 days by both parents.

● Similar species: Palm Warbler: Prairie Warbler has brighter yellow underparts and lacks streaks on breast.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.

● Range & Habitat: Palm Warbler: Breeds from west-central Canada east to Labrador and Newfoundland, and south to extreme northern U.S. Spends winters in the southeastern U.S. and southward. Preferred habitats include bogs, marsh edges, and weedy fields.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common to common

^MigrationMigratory

^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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