Adult Description
- Small songbird.
- Underparts entirely yellow.
- Back olive green.
- Face yellow.
- Male with black hood and bib.
- Large white spots in tail.
Immature DescriptionImmature
- Like adult, but with less black.
The Hooded Warbler is strongly territorial on its wintering grounds. Males and females use different habitats: males in mature forest, and females in scrubbier forest and seasonally flooded areas. If a male is removed, a female in adjacent scrub will not move into the male's territory.
Eating Habits:
The main food is small insects, spiders and other small arthropods. On the wintering grounds, birds typically forage lower in the canopy on down to the ground. Males and females may forage at different heights on the breeding grounds, with breeding males usually found feeding at the highest parts of the canopy. Food is usually captured by hawking, hovering at the leaf and gleaning.
Measurements:
Both Sexes
Length
5.1 in13 cm
Weight
0.3–0.4 oz 9–12 g
Other Names
- Paruline à acpuchon (French)
- Reinita encapuchada (Spanish)
Calls
- Song, calls
- Song a loud, clear whistled "ta-wit ta-wit ta-wit tee-yo."
According to the BBS, the highest densities of hooded warblers are
generally found with a more extensive shrub layer and larger areas of contin-
uous forest. The BBS shows an insignificant increase in population on
a continental basis, but a significant increase in the eastern part of this
bird’s range over the past 30 years.
You will mostly find this Hooded Warbler in Eastern North America in the Summer time, and in the Eastern South America in the Winter time.
Maybe today will be the day ther YOU see a Hooded Warbler, but now you know a little more when you spot one.
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where we can find it other than North America...
ReplyDeletei haven't heard about that name but may be i have seen it before...
regards
cleon dann
It breeds in eastern North America and across the eastern USA and into southernmost Canada, (Ontario). It is migratory, wintering in Central America and the West Indies. Hooded Warblers are very rare vagrants to western Europe.
ReplyDeleteHi Cleon ~
ReplyDeleteThanks for your inquiry about the Hooded Warbler.
To answer your question about inhabitation is the Hooded Warbler breeds in eastern North America and across the eastern USA and into southernmost Canada, (Ontario). It is migratory, wintering in Central America and the West Indies. Hooded Warblers are very rare vagrants to western Europe.
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