Orange-crowned Warbler

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.

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