Blue-winged WarblerVermivora cyanoptera

adult male (breeding)
Gerard Bailey/VIREO
adult female, breeding
Johann Schumacher/VIREO
adult male, breeding
Garth McElroy/VIREO
adult male, breeding
Glenn Bartley/VIREO
immature male (1st spring)
Brian E. Small/VIREO
immature female (1st fall)
Gerard Bailey/VIREO
Blue-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler





Insect-like buzzy song, which sounds like a tired sigh, seee-bzzz, the bzzz pitched lower.


dawn song #2
alarm chips
dawn song #3
dawn song #1
song variant
normal song


Abandoned fields and pastures grown up to saplings; forest clearings and edges with clumps of catbrier, blackberry, and various bushes and young trees.


Breeds from Nebraska, central Iowa, southern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, and central New England south through east-central and Atlantic Coast states to northern Georgia. Winters in tropics.


This warbler perches motionless for minutes at a time when uttering its song. It frequently hybridizes with its close relative the Golden-winged Warbler. Where the ranges of the two species overlap, the Blue-winged is crowding out the Golden-winged.


5 brown-dotted white eggs in a grass-lined cup of dead leaves and fibers, placed on or very near the ground in thick undergrowth.

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adult male, Interior West, breeding

Yellow Warbler


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Northern Parula


adult male

Tropical Parula


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Prothonotary Warbler


adult male, Pacific

Wilson's Warbler



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