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Blackpoll Warbler -
(Dendroica striata)
 

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Identification

  • Small songbird
  • Spring male has solid black cap with contrasting white cheeks
  • Grey back, streaked with black
  • White underparts with black streaks on flanks
  • Two white wingbars
  • Yellowish feet and legs
  • Female much duller, more greenish grey, streaked back
  • White below with streaks on sides
  • Fall colors very dull--olive green on back, lighter below, and faintly streaked sides
  • 5-5.5" (14 cm.)

Habitat

  • On migration, a wide variety of forested and shrubby areas
  • Breeds in boreal spruce-fir forests, mostly north of Wisconsin

Additional Information

  • Fairly common migrant
  • Found in high tree tops
  • Fall migration route is non-stop over open water from NE US for up to 2000 miles, for up to 88 hours (Cornell)
  • Breeds in Northern Canada and Alaska
  • Winters in northern South America

Blackpoll Warbler sitting on maple branches

 

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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