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Vermivora pinus

Photo by Birder1844
Location: Fulton, New York, USA.

[edit] Identification

L 4 3/4" (12cm)

[edit] Male

• Yellow head and underparts
• Black eyeline
• Blue-gray wings, with two white wing-bars
• Undertail coverts are yellowish or white
• Olive back

[edit] Female

• Females are similar but duller.

Head and underparts yellow with black lores, crown washed olive in all except adult male, undertail coverts whitish. Hind-neck and upperparts olive, wings and tail blue-gray with 2 whitish wingbars, white tail-spots.

[edit] Hybridization

Interbreeds with Golden-winged Warbler, producing two main plumage types: 'Brewster's Warbler' and 'Lawrence's Warbler'.

[edit] Distribution

Breeds eastern North America from southern Minnesota east to New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut south to Arkansas in the western part of its range, east across Michigan, southern Ontario, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania; winters eastern Mexico to central Panama. Rare vagrant in the west, mostly to Colorado and California.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Later successional habitats including old fields, brushy hillsides, and stream edges.

[edit] Behaviour

They build a cup shaped nest on the ground or low in a bush; 4-7 eggs are laid.

The diet includes insects, and spiders.

[edit] Vocalisation

Song a rather harsh, buzzy beeee-BZZZZZ like a deep sigh.

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