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Bachman's Warbler

Vermivora bachmaniiOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Bachman's Warbler Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Bachman's Warbler: Small warbler with olive-green upperparts, yellow forehead, throat, and underparts, faint white eye-ring, and black crown and bib. Female and juvenile are duller and lack black on crown and breast. Believed to be extinct.

Range and Habitat

Bachman's Warbler: Probably extinct; previously occurred in the southeastern U.S. during its breeding season; the only positive winter reports for this species were in Cuba and southern Florida. In the breeding season, the species favored seasonally flooded swamp forests, especially with cane thickets.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"trill, trill, trill, trill, trill, trill, trill,trill"

Interesting Facts

 The Bachman's Warbler is presumed extinct. John James Audubon named this bird after his friend and collaborator, Reverend John Bachman of South Carolina, who is credited with discovering this species. The last confirmed sightings were in 1988 and before that in 1961 in South Carolina.

 On January 14, 2002, a bird resembling a female Bachman's Warbler was filmed in Cuba. As these birds are not known to live more than about 7 years, if the identification is correct it would imply that a breeding population managed to survive undiscovered for decades.

 Habitat destruction was probably the main cause of its disappearance. Its extinction is not yet officially announced, because habitat remaining in Congaree National Park needs to be surveyed.

 A group of warblers has many collective nouns, including a "bouquet", "confusion", "fall", and "wrench" of warblers.



Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Vermivora bachmanii
Length4.25 - 4.75 Inches
Wingspan7.125 Inches

Bachman's Warbler

Bachman's Warbler: Small warbler, olive-green upperparts, yellow forehead, throat, underparts, faint white eye-ring, black crown, bib. It was last seen in the United States in 1962, when it was recorded near Charlestown, South Carolina. In Cuba a wintering female was spotted in 1981.

● Song: "trill, trill, trill, trill, trill, trill, trill,trill"

● Foraging & Feeding: Bachman's Warbler: Eats insects, mostly caterpillars, spiders, and other small invertebrates: Forages by searching among leaves and probing into leaf clusters.

● Breeding & nesting: Bachman's Warbler: Three to five white eggs are laid in a nest made of leaves, grass, moss, and other plant material, lined with finer material and Spanish moss, and built from 1 to 4 feet above the ground in a bottomland forest, usually near water. Female incubates eggs for about 12 days.

● Similar species: Bachman's Warbler: Sides of face, belly, and undertail coverts of the Hooded Warbler are yellow; also has large white patches on outer tail feathers.

Flight Pattern

Short weak fluttering flights with rapid shallow wing beats.
Bachman's Warbler Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Bachman's Warbler: Probably extinct; previously occurred in the southeastern U.S. during its breeding season; the only positive winter reports for this species were in Cuba and southern Florida. In the breeding season, the species favored seasonally flooded swamp forests, especially with cane thickets.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationProbably extinct
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.5 Ounces