Friday 14 November 2014

Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)

Length: 5-5.5inches (12.7-14cm); upperparts greenish yellow; feet orange yellow; white wing bars; chest yellowish with faint side streaks; underparts whitish, undertail white; eye stripe whitish 
Breeding Male: black cap; white cheeks; black mustache stripe. Breeding Female: crown blackish streaks. Habitat: Forest and wooded areas, found mostly at Harrison's Point in October but also seen at other locations in St. Lucy during Fall Migration. Graeme Swamp during Spring Migration. Statue: Passage Migrant. 
Blackpoll Warbler makes one of the longest migrations of any North American Song Bird, a total of about 2,000 miles from western Alaska to the Venezuela and Guyana. 


Fall 2018 St. Lucy 
May 2017 Graeme Hall 

May 2017 Graeme Hall 

May 2017 Graeme Hall 






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