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  All About Birds: Cape May Warbler
The Cape May Warbler breeds across the boreal forest of Canada and the northern United States, where the fortunes of its populations are largely tied to the availability of spruce budworms, its preferred food.
The tongue of the Cape May Warbler is unique among warblers.
The nest of the Cape May Warbler was not accurately described until the early 20th century.
www.birds.cornell.edu /AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Cape_May_Warbler.html   (295 words)

  
  Cape May Warbler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cape May Warbler, Dendroica tigrina, is a small New World warbler.
The summer male Cape May Warbler has a brown back, yellowish rump and dark brown crown.
Cape May Warblers nest in dense foliage near the trunk of a conifer, laying 4-9 eggs in a cup nest.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_May_Warbler   (289 words)

  
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 Cape May Warbler
The Cape May Warbler gets its name from the fact that the first specimen was collected at Cape May, New Jersey, where it is sometimes a common migrant.
The Cape May Warbler consumes insects caught by flycatching or gleaning the tips of dense branches and new buds of conifers near the tops of trees.
The Cape May Warbler breeds from southern Mackenzie, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec south to North Dakota, Michigan, northern New York, Maine and Nova Scotia.
www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /capemay_warbler_info.htm   (245 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler, Great Lakes Bird Conservation
Repeated fires and logging may limit this species by preventing development of the mature forests needed by both the Cape May Warbler and the spruce budworm (Erskine 1977).
The composition and foraging ecology of mixed-species flocks in pine forest of Hispaniola.
Morse, D.H. Populations of Bay-breasted and Cape May Warblers during an outbreak of the spruce budworm.
www.uwgb.edu /birds/greatlakes/species/cmwa.htm   (1451 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler - Whatbird.com
Cape May Warbler: Small warbler with olive-yellow upperparts and thick, fl streaks on yellow underparts.
Cape May Warbler: Breeds from southern Mackenzie, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec south to North Dakota, Michigan, northern New York, Maine, and Nova Scotia.
● Breeding and nesting: Cape May Warbler: Four brown-spotted, white eggs are laid in a bulky, compact, twig-and-moss nest lined with grass, fur, and feathers.
identify.whatbird.com /obj/285/_/target.aspx   (898 words)

  
 Birds and All Nature: The Cape May Warbler
It may be objected that the small size of the warblers renders their field study difficult, even if the foliage does not prove a serious hindrance.
Thus in the Cape May warbler the ear patches are rufous.
The Cape May warbler belongs among the less common species, but may be common for a day or two during the height of the migration.
www.birdnature.com /feb1899/capemay.html   (604 words)

  
 Nearctica - Natural History - Birds of Eastern North America - Warblers - Cape May Warbler
The Yellow-rumped warbler is browner and lacks a dull, fl streak through the eye.
Habitat: The Cape-May Warbler is found in open spruce forests, although during the spring and autumn migrations it occurs in a variety of wooded habitats.
Cape May is on the coast of New Jersey where the Cape May Warbler can be seen commonly duriing migration.
www.nearctica.com /birds/warbler/Dtigr.htm   (481 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Cape May measures 5 - 5 1/4" in length with a wingspread of 7 1/2-8 1/2".
The Cape May is a migratory bird and follows the ellipical migration route and passes through certain areas only once a year.
The song of the Cape May Warbler is a very high pitched, thin see-see-see-see.
www.birdnature.com /capemay.html   (352 words)

  
 Boreal Songbird Initiative : Boreal & Birds
During the brief summer breeding season, Cape May warblers are patchily distributed in forest of spruce, fir or jack pine conifers.
The Cape May Warbler is perhaps best known among ornithologists as a „spruce budworm specialist.‰ Its populations expand during outbreaks of the defoliating spruce budworm, reaching high densities in such areas and then sometimes disappearing between outbreaks.
This warbler gets its name from the fact that the first specimen was collected at Cape May, New Jersey, where it is sometimes a common migrant.
www.enature.com /parkguides/viewSpeciesLG_park.asp?showType=5&rgnID=2354&curGroupID=1&curPageNum=244&recnum=BD0366&qry=rgn=PK_2354   (308 words)

  
 Birding in Cape May May 2005 By Susan Tischler
Birds know this (Cape May) is the place to be…” according to the brochure and the New Jersey Audubon Society invites you to come on down for the show of shows.
The male Cape May Warbler has more streaking across the breast and a pale mark on the side of the neck.
The Prothonotary Warbler’s habitat is fresh water swamps like the ones found at Rhea's Farm off of Bayshore Road or at the back part of Higbees Beach, and the northern part of Cape May County.
www.capemay.com /Editorial/may05/birding101.html   (1571 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler - South Dakota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Cape May Warbler leads very different lives during the summer and winter months.
The Cape May Warbler is the only warbler with a tubular tongue adapted to feeding on nectar from flowers.
May 13th, 2004 -- Aberdeen -- Dan Streifel.
huskertsd.tripod.com /species/cape_may_warbler.htm   (286 words)

  
 NPWRC :: Bird Checklists of the United States
Cape May County, New Jersey is world-famous for bird study.
In fact, Wilson's Plover was first described from the South Cape May Meadows and the Cape May Warbler was named from a specimen taken by Wilson in Cape May County.
This checklist treats birds found in Cape May County, the waters of Delaware Bay, and offshore to a distance of 50 miles.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/birds/chekbird/r5/capemay.htm   (1619 words)

  
 Birds of Nova Scotia - Cape May Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Migration waves may occur from late August through September, and last sightings are routine in October and beyond (average 23 October, latest 13 December).
Remarks Its name is inappropriate, for although the species was first described from a bird collected at Cape May, New Jersey, in May 1811, it seems not to have been recorded there again until September 1920 (Stone 1937).
Although Chapman (1934) and Pough (1949) state, respectively, that the Cape May Warbler lays 3 or 4 eggs, it is now known that larger clutches are laid by this species in response to the rich food supplies available during outbreaks of the spruce budworm.
museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0317.htm   (420 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
May, 2004, was cold and rainy, and my backyard was rich in spring migrants desperately seeking out food sources in novel ways.
I had at least four different male Cape May Warblers, and at least four females, all at the same time in my yard for many days.
By the end of May, there were for a couple of days as many as 20 Cape Mays at one time.
www.lauraerickson.com /Birds/CapeMayWarbler.html   (332 words)

  
 mrnussbaum.com - Cape May Warbler
The Cape May Warbler is mostly bright yellow, with an olive cap, wings, and back.
The Cape May Warbler is an uncommon warbler of northern bogs, boreal forests, and mixed forests with tall trees.
The four and a half inch Cape May Warbler is distinctive in coloration, though one of the hardest warblers to identify as it typically stays high in the trees.
www.mrnussbaum.com /capemay.htm   (230 words)

  
 Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) The endangered Kirtland's warbler is one of the rarest members of the wood warbler (Parulidae) family.
The Kirtland's Warbler Festival is sponsored by Kirtland Community College in cooperation with the Michigan...
The typical warblers are small insectivorous birds belonging to the genus Sylvia of the Old World warbler family Sylviidae.
cranebird.iniacrane.com /warbler   (824 words)

  
 Cape May Birds by the Month: May
To some, May is the best month for birding Cape May. It is certainly the most colorful month for birding, with most species being in their freshest and most colorful plumage.
May is also the best time to learn the territorial and mate attracting songs of many species as well.
Other than the predictability of finding so many species, May is also a seasonal crossroads in Cape May. The migrants pour through all month long and those species that nest here are right where they belong.
www.capemaytimes.com /birds/cape-may-birds-by-the-month/may.htm   (825 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler status in Ohio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kirtland 1838: The Cape May warbler, Nuttall says, has "only been seen near the swamps of Cape May, in New Jersey, and near Philadelphia." I have succeeded in securing three specimens.
Jones 1903: The Lorain county records for this warbler number less than a dozen, all in the first week of May. There are no reports of greater numbers in the state, but Rev. Mr.
It reaches southern Ohio late in April, and northern Ohio a week later; returning about the middle of September, and may be found in Scioto county as late as October 8.
www.aves.net /birds-of-ohio/birdcmwa.htm   (332 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This bird gets it's name from Cape May, New Jersey, where the first specimen was collected in 1811.
The Cape May Warbler primarily feeds on insects, but also consumes fruits and berries during the non-breeding season.
Robert MacArthur, a pioneer of warbler ecology, demonstrated that this species (along with a few others) increases its clutch size when breeding during these outbreaks of the spruce budworm.
www.bird-friends.com /BirdPage.php?name=Cape+May+Warbler   (151 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler Habitat Model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Trees may be scattered or dense; also found near forest edge, especially if birches or hemlocks are present and more open land with small trees (DeGraaf and Rappole 1995)" (Robertson and Hammerson 2001).
The Breeding Bird Atlas (BBA) data for Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts (courtesy of the University of Vermont COOP Unit) were used to identify the range of the Cape May warbler within the study area.
The preferred vegetation for Cape May warblers appears to be somewhat open upland and wetland coniferous forest, or coniferous bogs.
www.fws.gov /r5gomp/gom/habitatstudy/metadata2/cape_may_warbler_model.htm   (669 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler Range Map
The Cape May Warbler breeds from southwestern and south-central Mackenzie and northeastern British Columbia east to central Ontario, southern Quebec and New Brunswick south to central Alberta, southeastern Manitoba, northern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, northeastern New York and east-central Maine.
The Cape May Warbler inhabits fairly open coniferous forests, especially those with a high percentage of mature spruce.
The Cape May Warbler will occasionally proliferate in areas heavily infested with spruce budworms.
www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /capemay_warbler_map.htm   (119 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler Trends   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Cape May Warbler, a tropical-wintering species, appears to be strongly affected by spruce budworm outbreaks, like several other warblers.
As with the Tennessee Warbler, peaks occurred in the early 1960s, late 1970s, and early 1990s, based on fall indices.
Spring indices showed a fairly steady increase until 1998, which was exceptionally low, though this may be due to weather conditions rather than population levels.
www.bsc-eoc.org /plots/cmwa.html   (127 words)

  
 NJAS: Cape May Rare Bird Alert - 9/12/1996
Six SOOTY TERNS (four adults and two juveniles) were in the rips off of Cape May Point on September 7th.
The Cape May Bird Observatory is a research and education unit of the New Jersey Audubon Society.
The Cape May Birding Hotline is a service of New Jersey Audubon's Cape May Bird Observatory and details sightings from Cape May, Cumberland, and Atlantic Counties and near shore waters.
www.njaudubon.org /Tools.Net/Sightings/Sightings.aspx?rt=CapeMay&rd=9/12/1996&tl=&tk=&ss=   (1083 words)

  
 Cape May Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
This morning, 14 June 2004, I thought my ears were playing tricks on me. I heard a Cape May Warbler singing from my front yard.
Sure enough, a male Cape May Warbler was singing in a large Red Oak by the street.
This bird is so late that according to Peter Pyle's Identification Guide to North American Birds (Part I) other Cape Mays on the breeding grounds could start their pre-basic molt any time, but this bird may just be late with everything including molt.
www.gos.org /sightings/cmwa.html   (259 words)

  
 Yellow Warbler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
North American birders who are fortunate to have Yellow Warblers breeding in the backyard may be surprised to see that the males of the resident race on Aruba have a bright red cap.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that migrant Yellow Warblers from North America may pass through or occasionally winter on the ABCs.
To make matters further complicated, some of the immature, worn, or molting resident Yellow Warblers can look like other warbler species that are rare or unrecorded for the island such as Tennessee Warbler, Nashville Warbler, or Cape May Warbler.
www.arubabirds.com /aboutBirds/YellowWarbler.htm   (158 words)

  
 mrnussbaum.com - yellow throated warbler
The four and a half inch Yellow Throated Warbler is fairly common in eastern floodplains, swamps, and forests where they forage high up in sycamores, pines, cypresses, and oaks.
Yellow Throated Warblers can be very hard to observe due to their sluggish behavior and habit of nesting up to 100 feet from the ground.
The Yellow Throated Warbler is a handsome bird, with a blue-gray cap, neck, back, and wings, a white stripe above the eye, a fl mask, a bright yellow throat and breast, and a white stomach.
www.mrnussbaum.com /yellowthroated.htm   (209 words)

  
 Warbler Watch: Warbler Identification Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Warblers are active little songsters whose plumages include dramatic combinations of blues, yellows, chestnut, orange, gray, and rich greens.
Warblers occur in virtually all habitats throughout North America, from dry shrubby fields to wet, bottomland forests.
To view warbler images, listen to their songs, and learn more about their distribution, use the pull-down menu (below) to select a warbler, and click on the go button.
www.birdsource.org /warblers/idguide.html   (101 words)

  
 BIRDCNTR Archives -- May 2003, week 1 (#18)
A first CAPE MAY WARBLER for the season arrived at Milligan Park in southwest Mason City on Monday, and Parker's Woods hosted the first BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER sighting.
The Worm-eating Warbler was around the entrance and early part of the trail.
The Hooded Warbler was across the road into the woods a bit.
listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0305a&L=birdcntr&D=0&T=0&P=1918   (1063 words)

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