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Black-and-white Warbler -
(Mniotilta varia)
 

 Audio

Identification

  • Small songbird
  • Streaked black and white all over
  • White wing bars
  • Spotted undertail coverts
  • Breeding male has black cheeks and throat
  • Female and immatures generally whiter
  • Below, whiter on face, white throat
  • 5.25" (13 cm.)

Habitat

  • Mature or second growth mixed
         deciduous and coniferous forests,
        
    generally in the northern half of WI
  • During migration, a variety of forested
         and shrubby areas

Additional Information

  • Fairly common migrant
  • Early migrant, may be found as early
         as mid-April
  • Forages along tree trunks and branches
         like a nuthatch
  • Song is a high, repetitive, squeaky
         "wee-see, wee-see, wee-see"
  • Breeds in extensive tracts of forest

Black-and-White Warbler foraging on a tree trunk

Black-and-White warbler positioned on tree branch 

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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