A small warbler of boreal bog habitats. Among the most difficult US warblers to find.
§ Quick facts
§ Encyclopedia
The Connecticut warbler is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
Source: Wikipedia — Connecticut warbler Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
§ Identification
Field marks. Large, chunky warbler with a complete bold white eye ring, gray hood (brownish on females), olive back, and yellow belly. Long undertail coverts give a short-tailed look.
Similar species. Mourning and MacGillivray's warblers can show eye-arcs but rarely a complete bold ring; both hop rather than walk.
Voice. A loud, ringing, accelerating 'beecher-beecher-beecher' or 'fru-chapple-fru-chapple'.
§ Diet & behavior
Diet. Insects (caterpillars primary), spiders, occasional berries on migration.
Behavior. A skulking ground-walker (it walks rather than hops) in boggy spruce-tamarack forest and poplar woods; notoriously hard to see and one of the most sought-after migrants.
§ Range
Boreal Canada in summer; winters Caribbean
§ Habitat
Bogs, peatlands
§ Threats
Boreal habitat loss.
§ Conservation status
According to the IUCN Red List, the connecticut warbler is currently classified as Least Concern.
§ What helps
Support boreal bog conservation.
§ Further reading
- Wikipedia — Connecticut warbler
- www.allaboutbirds.org — authoritative profile of Oporornis agilis
- IUCN Red List — search for Oporornis agilis
- GBIF occurrence records
- Encyclopedia of Life — Oporornis agilis
§ Sources cited
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology — All About Birds
- National Audubon Society
- iNaturalist
- IUCN Red List
