North American Bird Search Box
This search box can be used to find bird species using bird's english or french name, or to identify bird by its 4 letter Alpha Code
Field Guide for all the Birds of North America
Brewster's Warbler
Banding Code: BWWA (2)
Paruline de Brewster
Vermivora leucobronchialis Blue-winged x Golden-winged hybrids
Information, images and range maps on over 1,000 birds of North America, including sub-species, vagrants, introduced birds and possibilities
Species: The Brewster's Warbler (Dendroica castanea) is a hybrid of the Golden-winged Warbler and the Blue-winged Warbler. The Lawrence's Warbler is another hybrid, but a second or third generation from the original parent birds. The Brewster's Warbler is the most common and the one that is most often seen. It is more likely to be found on older farmlands, where the fields have been overgrown by trees, in bushy meadows or along the edges of second growth forests. Both hybrids' offsprings will, over a number of years, and through breeding, return back to one of the original two bird species. The Blue-winged Warbler's breeding range is moving farther northeast each year into the Golden-winged Warbler's breeding territory.
Distinctions: The male has a bright yellow forehead and possibly some yellow on the breast. The nape, back, wings and tail feather are bluish-gray. The throat, breast, flanks and undertail is white. It has a very distinguishable bold eyeline, starting from the bill to beyond the back of its eyes. The female and the juvenile bear resemblance to the male, except in duller colours. Showing maybe a light green cap, nap and back.
Voice: Single call note, song sound like "seeee-bzzzz, repeated over and over.
Nesting: Three to five white coloured eggs, with brown markings. The nest is usually built at the base of a tree or shrub or in shrubs low to the ground. Composed of rootlets, leaves, mosses, and lined with fine grasses and hair.
Life, Habitat and Pictures of North American Warblers
| B L | W W | W | Family | Latin Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.75" 12.1cm | 7.5" 19cm | 0.35oz 9.9g | Parulidae | Vermivora leucobronchialis |
North American Bird Calls
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Distribution: Found from the northeastern states bordering into Canada, touching southern Quebec, westward around the Great Lakes to southern Manitoba, through Minnesota, south to Oklahoma, east through the northern half of Mississippi and Georgia, northeastward to New Jersey and along the Atlantic coast.
References to Other Bird Sites:
Avibase - the world bird database This site provides the user with a complete list of bird species, broken down per country, or in the example of the US or Canada, per state and province. Here, bird species names are available in other languages, a great asset to be used as a translation of foreign bird names.
ABA - American Birding Association This site represents an organization that maintains official records of all birds species that have been proven to have been seen inside the perimeters of the North American Continent and the surrounding bodies of water. Regular revised versions are posted to keep the bird list current at all times. This is the list used by all serious birders over their lifetime. You may be aware of the movie called the "Big Year". It was with this list that all the competing birders used in an attempt to set a new record as to how many bird species that could be seen by an individual birder in one calendar year.
I hope you will take advantage of these suggested websites. I have used each of them, in one way or another, throughout the years in my quest to better identify and understand our fine feathered friends.