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Black-throated Green Warbler -
(Dendroica virens)
 

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Identification

  • Small songbird
  • Male has bright yellow face
  • Black throat and sides of breast
  • Olive-green back and head
  • White wingbars, white undertail
  • Female and immatures similar, but less black on throat
  • 5.0" (13 cm.)

Habitat

  • Extensive mature, mixed coniferous-deciduous forests

Additional Information

  • Fairly common migrant, rare summer resident south
  • Most breed in northern forests
  • Singing males have been found on the Reserve in summer
  • Male often sings from high, exposed perch
  • Song often heard on migration is "zee-zee-zee-zoo-zee"

Comparable Species

  • Pine Warbler (females)
  • Immature Blackburnian

Close up of a black-throated green warbler 

 

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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