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Orange-crowned Warbler

Vermivora celataOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
Orange-crowned Warbler Head Illustration_2

Head

  • Bill Shape: All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Black.
  • Head Pattern: Eyeline, Plain, Eyering (complete or broken)
  • Crown Color: Olive-green
  • Forehead Color: Olive-green
  • Nape Color: Olive-green
  • Throat Color: Pale yellow-green with faint streaking.
  • Cere color: No Data
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Body

  • Length Range: 12-13 cm (4.75-5 in)
  • Weight: 9 g (0.3 oz)
  • Size: Size 1. Very Small (3 - 5 in)
  • Color: Green, Orange, Yellow, Olive
  • Underparts: Pale yellow-green with faint streaking.
  • Upperparts: Olive-green
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Striped or streaked, Solid
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Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak flight.
  • Wingspan Range: 18-20 cm (7-8 in)
  • Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Gray
  • Under Tail: Gray
  • Leg Color: Gray
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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Vermivora celata
Length4.75 - 5 Inches
Wingspan7.5 Inches

Orange-crowned Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler: Small warbler with olive-green upperparts and faintly streaked, yellow underparts. The head has inconspicuous orange crown, broken eye-ring, and dark eye-line. Though it lives and nests in dense foliage close to the ground, the male perches at the tops of tall trees to sing.

● Song: "chip-ee, chip-ee, chip-ee", "stik"

● Foraging & Feeding: Orange-crowned Warbler: Eats invertebrates, berries, nectar, and sap; regularly feeds at Red-naped Sapsucker wells.

● Breeding & nesting: Orange-crowned Warbler: Three to six white eggs with dark red and brown blotches are laid in a large nest made of grass and other plant fibers, lined with fur or feathers, and built on the ground or in a low shrub. Incubation ranges from 12 to 14 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Orange-crowned Warbler: Tennessee Warbler has blue-gray head, olive-gray back, and dark eye-line. Ruby-crowned Kinglet is smaller and has broken eye-rings and wing-bars.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight.
Orange-crowned Warbler Body Illustration_2
● Range & Habitat: Orange-crowned Warbler: Breeds from Alaska east to Quebec and Labrador, and south to California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Spends winters from southern U.S. into tropics. Preferred habitats include forest edges, especially in low deciduous growth, burns, clearings, and thickets; often seen in riverside willows and scrub oak chaparral during migration.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
Population
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.3 Ounces