Bachman's Warbler

Vermivora bachmaniiOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: BAWA Scientific Name: VERBAC ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178854

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Bachman's Warbler Breeding Male Portrait

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Bachman's Warbler

Bachman's Warbler: Small warbler, olive-green upperparts, yellow forehead, throat, underparts, faint white eye-ring, black crown, bib. It was last seen in the United States in 1962, when it was recorded near Charlestown, South Carolina. In Cuba a wintering female was spotted in 1981.

● Song: "trill, trill, trill, trill, trill, trill, trill,trill"

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

● Breeding & 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.

● 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.

Flight Pattern

Short weak fluttering flights with rapid shallow wing beats.

Bachman's Warbler Breeding Male Body Illustration

● Range & 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.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationProbably extinct

^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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