Worm-eating Warbler

WORM-EATING WARBLER SCIENTIFIC NAME: Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmelin) OTHER NAMES: Worm-eater, Worm-eating Swamp Warbler (Terres 1980).

Worm-eating Warblers eat insects, usually searching in dead leaves or bark on trees and shrubs, also picking through dead leaves on the forest floor. Despite their name, they rarely if ever eat earthworms.

The Worm-eating Warbler is another poorly named bird, for they rarely if ever feed on earthworms, although they do feed heavily on caterpillars.

01/19/98 NAME - Worm-eating Warbler FAMILY - Parulidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Helmitheros vermivorus SYNONYMS - Motacilla vermivora - Gmelin, 1789 REFERENCES - 42 and 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Winter visitor - migrant.

Worm-eating Warbler Helmitheros vermivorus (Gmelin) Status Rare vagrant. A male specimen in the American Museum of Natural History was taken on Sable Island on 30 October 1903 but was first reported in the literature by McLaren (1981a).

Worm-eating Warbler Enigmatic songbirds, they often forage for insects in hanging dead leaves. Acrobat of the Aerial Leaf Litter ...

Adult Worm-eating Warbler, May Figure 1. Distribution of the Worm-eating Warbler.

WORM-EATING WARBLER Helmitheros vermivorus The name "Worm-eating" was given to this warbler because its diet includes caterpillars, once referred to as "worms.

WORM-EATING WARBLER, Sylvia vermivora, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 74. SYLVIA VERMIVORA, Bonap. Syn., p. 86. WORM-EATING WARBLER, Sylvia vermivora, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 177;vol. v. p. 460.

Worm-eating Warbler, Helmitheros vermivorus Swainson's Warbler, Limnothlypis swainsonii Ovenbird, Seiurus aurocapillus Northern Waterthrush, Seiurus noveboracensis Louisiana Waterthrush, Seiurus motacilla ...

Worm-eating Warbler (Dendroica vermivorus) Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata) ...

Worm-eating Warbler Fall Sighting Information: rare Nest on or near Refuge? no Yellow Warbler Fall Sighting Information: rare Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...

The species most similar to the Swainson's Warbler is the Worm-eating Warbler. The Worm-eating Warbler has a bold buffy and brown head stripe pattern. Georgia Wildlife Web All information provided by the Georgia Museum of Natural History ...

Worm-eating Warbler List page 12 : Ovenbird...........................Lark Sparrow List page 13 : Savannah Sparrow...................Dickcissel List page 14 : Bobolink...........................House Sparrow ...

See also: Warbler, Sparrow, Redstart, American Redstart, Ovenbird