Cerulean Warbler

Cerulean warbler Dendroica cerulea
Identification Tips:
Length: 4 inches
Small, active, insect-eating bird
Wing bars
Thin, pointed bill ...

CERULEAN WARBLER

Photo Credit: Callie Jo Schweitzer
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Dendroica cerulea (Wilson) ...

Cerulean Warbler
Setophaga cerulea ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE
IUCN Conservation Status: Vulnerable ...

CERULEAN WARBLER
Dendroica cerulea
STATUS:
Once a common sight in the forests of the eastern United States, the cerulean warbler is vanishing at an alarming rate.

Cerulean Warblers are becoming a less and less common sight in the eastern United States, as habitat loss and fragmentation is thought to be behind a steady decline in recent decades. They are also fairly common hosts to Cowbird parasitism.

Cerulean Warbler
(Dendroica cerulea)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2003
This species is State Threatened.

Hamel, P. B. 2000. Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea). In The Birds of North America, No. 511 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.
Birds ...

Cerulean Warbler: Dendroica cerulea
Appearance:
Cerulean warblers are strikingly beautiful - adult males are a vibrant blue color on their backs and heads, and white below, with a dark breast band and dark streaks.

Cerulean Warblers
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Chestnut-sided Warblers ...

Cerulean Warbler »
The Cerulean warbler (Dendroica cerulea) is a small, sky-blue bird most often seen flitting around the upper canopy of mature deciduous eastern forests.

Cerulean Warbler
Spring Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Spring Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...

Populations of Cerulean Warblers are mostly isolated and occur in the eastern half of the United States. Most breeding populations are in the northern states east of the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Is management for golden-winged warblers and cerulean warblers compatible? In: Ralph, C. John; Rich, Terrell D., eds.

Cerulean warbler (Dendroica cerulea)
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Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)
Pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus)
Java sparrow (Padda oryzivora) ...

THE COERULEAN WOOD-WARBLER.
[Cerulean Warbler.]
SYLVICOLA COERULEA, Wils.
[Dendroica cerulea.] ...

Mexican Warblers
Wood-Warblers at Sterling Forest State Park
Cerulean Warblers at Doodletown Road
No Split for Yellow-rumped Warbler
Migration Comes to Me ...

See also: Warbler, Blackburnian warbler, Gnatcatcher, American Redstart, Finch