General

Bachman's Warbler: Small warbler with olive-green upperparts, yellow forehead, throat, and underparts, faint white eye-ring, and black crown and bib. Female and juvenile are duller and lack black on crown and breast. Believed to be extinct.

Range and Habitat

Bachman's Warbler: Probably extinct; previously occurred in the southeastern U.S. during its breeding season; the only positive winter reports for this species were in Cuba and southern Florida. In the breeding season, the species favored seasonally flooded swamp forests, especially with cane thickets.

Breeding and Nesting

Bachman's Warbler: Three to five white eggs are laid in a nest made of leaves, grass, moss, and other plant material, lined with finer material and Spanish moss, and built from 1 to 4 feet above the ground in a bottomland forest, usually near water. Female incubates eggs for about 12 days.

Foraging and Feeding

Bachman's Warbler: Eats insects, mostly caterpillars, spiders, and other small invertebrates: Forages by searching among leaves and probing into leaf clusters.

Readily Eats

Sugar Water, Fruit, Nut Pieces

Vocalization

Bachman's Warbler: Song is a series of buzzing notes remaining on one pitch.

Similar Species

Bachman's Warbler: Sides of face, belly, and undertail coverts of the Hooded Warbler are yellow; also has large white patches on outer tail feathers.