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A Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) perched in the shrubs along the hiking trail to the Northern Gannet colony on Bonaventure Island east of Perce, Quebec, Canada.
8 June, 2012.
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It's so exciting to see all of the migratory birds returning. Pine, palm, and black and white warblers have returned to join the bird show.
Have a wonderful day and happy snapping.
The grey-hooded warbler (Phylloscopus xanthoschistos) is a species of leaf warbler (family Phylloscopidae). It is most famous for the way it warbles. It was formerly included in the "Old World warbler" assemblage.
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
A small bird of the deciduous forest treetops, the sky-blue Cerulean Warbler is hard to see. It nests and forages higher in the canopy than most other warblers.
sardinian warbler
occhiocotto
sylvia melanocephala
sunrise, taken from fixed hide
alba, scattata da capanno fisso privato
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The Yellow Throated Warbler is small migratory songbird species in temperate North America. It has more extensive resident population in the Southern United States than most other Warblers. This is one of my back yard birds, they only come in the Fall/Winter to my Bird Feeder.
These little birds are wicked busy. This year I challenged myself to photograph warblers, what was I thinking?!
Spent a very pleasant couple of hours up on the hills today, looking for Dartfords. I think I found three pairs, but they were very mobile, so maybe just four birds.
Staple plain, Quantock Hills.
This and all my fall warbler posts to come were photographed in my new country yard in between unpacking stuff from our moving boxes. A lot of Wilson's passed through during the first couple of days after the move.
When visiting a flowery perch many warblers will forage for small insects amongst the flowers. When a bird is comfortable enough to visit your perch and stays long enough to forage and/or sing then you not only get a better photography opportunity but that means the bird is relatively comfortable despite your efforts. Overuse of playback in the Spring season rarely leads to such good opportunities.
This Male was next to a footpath when he popped up onto the gorse.Just as I focused on him he started singing his lovely distinctive song.
Taken in Devon.
I found this cooperative bird 2 days earlier and decided to return with some yellow wild flowers I dug up. The same flowers were used later for a set-up with a Go1den-w1nged warbler. The total time using playback was minimal. What a thrill to see a 'skulking' Mourning warbler foraging around you in the open! This has not been unusual at this productive location which is a very large area which had been clear cut and has lots of fallen logs/branches and regenerating vegetation. Having gone to this area of Michigan annually for 8 years now we have never run into another photographer or birder. The area is off the birding grid. It is a gem.
Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)
Forest of Dean
Thanks once again to my friend Ben Locke for his company and knowledge of the forest & its wildlife
Dartford Warbler - Sylvia Undata
The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) iDs a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty white patch. It has light speckles on the throat and a red eye-ring. The sexes are similar but the adult female is usually less grey above and paler below.
Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy (southern Apulia). The Dartford warbler is usually resident all year in its breeding range, but there is some limited migration.
The Dartford warbler was first described by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant from two specimens that were shot in April 1773 on Bexley Heath near Dartford in Kent.
The species is naturally rare. The largest European populations of Sylvia undata are in the Iberian peninsula, others in much of France, in Italy and southern England and south Wales. In Africa it can be found only in small areas in the north, wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.
In southern England the birds breed on heathlands, sometimes near the coast, and nest in either common gorse (Ulex europaeus) or common heather (Calluna
Dartford warblers are named for Dartford Heath in north west Kent, where the population became extinct in the early twentieth century. They almost died out in the United Kingdom in the severe winter of 1962/1963 when the national population dropped to just ten pairs. Sylvia undata is also sensitive to drought affecting breeding success or producing heath fires, as occurred during 1975 and 1976 in England when virtually all juveniles failed to survive their first year.
However, this species can recover well in good quality habitat with favourable temperatures and rainfall, thanks to repeated nesting and a high survival rate for the young. Indeed, they recovered in some areas of the UK, but numbers are once again on the decline in other regions of their natural range.
The range of the Dartford warbler is restricted to western and southern Europe. The total population in 2012 was estimated at 1.1–2.5 million breeding pairs. The largest numbers occur in Spain where there were believed to be 983,000–1,750,000 pairs. For reasons that probably include loss of suitable habitat, the Spanish population appears to be declining. The species is therefore classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being Near threatened.
A period of climatic warming since 1963 has seen the UK population increase to "more than 2,500 pairs in 2006 (Wotton et al. 2009). Expansion into patches of structurally suitable habitat (up to an altitude of 400m), more northerly areas and away from the core of the range, from Dorset and Hampshire to Derbyshire and Suffolk, is likely to have been facilitated by milder winter weather (Wotton et al. 2009, Bradbury et al. 2011)... The Dartford warbler population in the UK is expected to continue to increase. However, future climate-based projections for the European range indicate that by 2080, more than 60% of the current European range may no longer be suitable (Huntley et al 2007). There is evidence that this is happening already, with severe declines in Spain and France (Green 2017). For this reason, the species is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Global Red List. If the declines in southern Europe continue, the UK will become increasingly important for global conservation of this species".
Population:
UK breeding:
3,200 pairs
Willow Warbler - Phylloscopus trochilus
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It is a bird of open woodlands with trees and ground cover for nesting, including most importantly birch, alder, and willow habitats. The nest is usually built in close contact with the ground, often in low vegetation. Like most Old World warblers (Sylviidae), this small passerine is insectivorous. In northern Europe, it is one of the first warblers to return in the spring though is later than the closely related chiffchaff.
It is a typical leaf warbler in appearance, 11–12.5 cm long and 7–15 g weight. It is greenish brown above and off-white to yellowish below; the wings are plain greenish-brown with no wingbars. Juveniles are yellower below than adults. It is very similar to the chiffchaff, but non-singing birds can be distinguished from that species by their paler pinkish-yellow legs (dark brown to blackish in chiffchaff), longer paler bill, more elegant shape and longer primary projection (wingtip). Its song is a simple repetitive descending whistle, while the contact call is a disyllabic 'hoo-eet', distinct from the more monosyllabic 'hweet' of chiffchaffs.
Willow warblers prefer young, open, scrubby woodland with small trees, including human-altered habitats such as coppice and young plantations up to 10–20 years old. High amounts of birch, alder and willow, with good lichen amounts, and water features (e.g. streams), fields with large amounts of bracken and mosses, and patches of low bramble (for nest cover) are preferred, but it will use a wide range of other species, including young or open coniferous forests. Incorporating woodland ride edge thickets is beneficial, as is 15 metre woodland edges of varying structure and height. They prefer damp woodland areas. Thicket forming shrubs like blackthorn provide pockets of habitat. Deer browsing can degrade the required low cover.
A Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) greets us on our visit to Bonaventure Island near perce, Quebec, Canada.
8 June, 2012.
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Georgia. 4/10/2020.
Taken in a Georgia swamp. The bird is nicknamed the golden swamp warbler. It is our ony eastern warbler that regularly nests in cavities. Out west the Lucy's does as well. The perch I think is some sort of crabapple.
Willow Warbler seen in the Newlands Valley, The yellow background is gorse in flower. Cumbria. (2116)
Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia) in the woods on Bonaventure Island off the coast near Perce, Quebec, Canada.
8 June, 2012.
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Another Dartford from yesterday.
This one briefly posed on top of this small conifer by one of the paths.
Taken in Devon
Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, Oakland, CA
This male Orange-crowned Warbler just spotted a caterpillar, and is about to snatch and feed it to his junior. The juvenile is shown in the next picture.
The Yellow-rumped Warbler is the only warbler able to digest the waxes found in bayberries and wax myrtles. Its ability to use these fruits allows it to winter farther north than other warblers, sometimes as far north as Newfoundland.
You can hear it's song in the link below:
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow_Warbler/sounds
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D