#blackpoll warbler

[mushbeast]

sketchbook spread of a blackpoll warbler and a little blue heron. both created with holbein acryla gouache

[occasionallybirds]

More mug shots from bird banding, warbler edition

American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)

Palm Warbler (Setophaga palmarum)

October 1, 2025

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[podartists]

Setophaga fusca | Setophaga magnolia | Setophaga striata | Setophaga castanea | Setophaga pensylvanica | Setophaga virens

Plate XII | Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (1891)

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Blackpoll Warbler Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

[burkh4rt]

[dabiconcordia]

Longing Think of the blackpoll warbler. She tips the scales at one ounce before she migrates, taking off from the seacoast to our east flying higher and higher ascending two or three miles during her eighty hours of flight until she lands, in Tobago, north of Venezuela three days older, and weighing half as much. She flies over open ocean almost the whole way. Oh she is not so different from us. The arc of our lives is a mystery too. We do not understand, we cannot see what guides us on our way: that longing that pulls us toward light. Not knowing, we fly onward hearing the dull roar of the waves below. by Julie Cadwallader Staub

[proton-wobbler]

Warbler Showdown pt2; Bracket 2, Poll 4

Blackpoll vs Yellow

Blackpoll Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Voting ended onMay 9, 2024

Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)

IUCN Rating: Near Threatened

Range: breeds in Northern Canada and Alaska and overwinters in Brazil - for note, this makes their migration the longest for any member of Parulidae.

Habitat: in Canada, found in boreal black spruce and tamarack forests. Much less picky when overwintering, found in many different wooded habitats (deciduous, rain, cloud, mangrove, and gallery forests), as well as forest edges, second growth, and coffee plantations.

Subspecies: none

Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)

IUCN Rating: Least Concern

Range: almost the entire continent of North America, save the locals of Nunavut, northern Quebec, and Greenland. Only migrates through the southern US states, and overwinters from southern Mexico all the way to Northern Brazil.

Habitat: breeds in wet, deciduous thicket, especially those with willows. While overwintering, uses a variety of wooded and scrubby habitats, as well as mangroves.

Subspecies: 9*; Mangrove Warbler could be split out as its own species

Image Sources: BLPW (Simon Boivin); YEWA (Tom Murray)

[maybeelse]

Bonus dark-eyed junco, blackpoll warbler, and white-throated sparrow: