- Pine Warbler
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Pine Warbler 
Adult male Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Parulidae Genus: Dendroica Species: D. pinus Binomial name Dendroica pinus
(Wilson, 1811)
Breeding-only (yellow), all-year (green), wintering (blue) ranges in North America Synonyms Dendroica vigorsii
The Pine Warbler, Dendroica pinus, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
These birds have white bellies, white wing bars, dark legs and thin, relatively long pointed bills; they have yellowish lines over their eyes. Adult males have olive upperparts and bright yellow throats and breasts; females and immatures display upperparts which are olive-brown. Their throats and breasts are paler.
The song of this bird is a musical trill. Their calls are slurred chips.
Female
Their breeding habitats are open pine woods in eastern North America. These birds are permanent residents in southern Florida. Some of them, however, migrate to northeastern Mexico and islands in the Caribbean. The first record for South America was a vagrant wintering female seen at Vista Nieve, Colombia, on 20 November 2002; this bird was foraging as part of a mixed-species feeding flock that also included wintering Blackburnian and Tennessee Warblers.[1]
They forage slowly on tree trunks and branches by poking their bill into pine cones. These birds also find food by searching for it on the ground. These birds mainly eat insects, seeds and berries.
Their nests are deep, open cups, which are placed near the end of a tree branch. Pine Warblers prefer to nest in pine trees, hence their names.
Footnotes
- ^ Strewe & Navarro (2004)
References
- BirdLife International (2004). Dendroica pinus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Strewe, Ralf & Navarro, Cristobal (2004): New and noteworthy records of birds from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region, north-eastern Colombia. Bull. B.O.C. 124(1): 38-51. PDF fulltext
External links
- Pine Warbler videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection
- Pine Warbler - Dendroica pinus - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
- Pine Warbler Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Pine Warbler Information and Photos - South Dakota Birds and Birding
- Pine Warbler Bird Sound
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Dendroica
- Birds of the United States
- Birds of Canada
- Birds of Belize
- Birds of Costa Rica
- Birds of Honduras
- Birds of the Bahamas
- Birds of the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Birds of the Caribbean
- Birds of the Greater Antilles
- Birds of Cuba
- Birds of the Dominican Republic
- Birds of Haiti
- Birds of Jamaica
- Birds of Puerto Rico
- Birds of Martinique
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