(Vermivora cyanoptera)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Distribution • Taxonomy
Conservation Status |
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| IUCN Red List | LC - Least Concern |
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| NatureServe | N5B - Secure Breeding SNRB - Unranked Breeding |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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The upper parts are olive-yellow. The head, chest, and belly are bright yellow. The tail is bluish-gray. The undertail coverts are white or yellowish-white. When viewed from below there is much white on the underside of the tail. The wings are bluish-gray with two narrow white wingbars. A black line (eyeline) passes from the base of the bill through and behind the eye. The bill is long and slender.
Total length: 4½″ to 5″
Wingspan: 7½″
The main song is a wheezy or buzzy beeee BZZZZZ, the first note clear, second note raspy.
Second growth woodlands, woodland edges and openings, shrubby abandoned fields, willow thickets, shrubby streamsides.
Early May to early September
Insects and spiders
Very widespread in eastern North America. Uncommon migrant and breeder in Minnesota.
The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union All Seasons Species Occurrence Map
Class
Aves (birds)
Order
Passeriformes (perching birds)
Family
Parulidae (New World warblers)
Genus
Vermivora (blue-winged and golden-winged warblers)
Species epithet
This bird was originally named Vermivora pinus in 1766 by Carl Linnaeus based on misidentified birds in the illustrations of others. In 2010 the name was changed to Vermivora cyanoptera to correct that mistake.
Certhia cyanoptera
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Wild Birds Blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera): Birds Singing Chirping In Nature - 2017
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Blue-winged warbler - Vermivora cyanoptera
Stoil Ivanov
Blue winged Warbler
WIld Bird Videos by McElroy Productions
Blue-winged Warbler Portrait
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Blue-winged Warbler
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