Arkansas Warbler Identification

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1 Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler,,,, rare shrublands, regenerating clearcuts cypress swamp, pineoak wooded edges near water blue wings w/ 2 white wingbars; yellow forehead, underparts; black line through eye but duller gray above, white below; yellow wing patch + black throat; yellow forehead; black ear patch but throat gray buzzy "beeee-bzzz" buzzy note then 3 low buzzes "bee-bz-bz-bz" white eyebrow; gray head; greenish back but greenish below 3-part staccato "ticka ticka ticka, seebit seebit seebit, tititititititi" dingy olive-green to gray; faint breast streaks; yellow undertail coverts fast, flat trill white eye-ring + yellow throat + gray head; olive back blue above; yellow throat; black & reddish breast band; greenish back patch; white wing bars extensively yellow, even under tail; reddish breast streaks but w/o breast band but breast streaks faint or absent yellow crown + chestnut sides; white cheeks outlined in black but duller 2-part staccato "seebit seebit seebit, tititititi" buzzy trill goes up scale smoothly or in steps and trips at top "zeeeeeup" or "zee-zee-zee-up" "tsee-tsee-tsee-tsee titi wee" or "sweet sweet sweet, I'm so sweet" mnemonic "pleasedpleased-please to meet chew" or "see-see-see Ms. Beecher" hybridizes with Golden-winged Warbler hybridizes with Blue-winged Warbler song 3-parted like name Tennessee 3- syllabled may visit feeders in song 2-parted like name Nashville 2- syllabled 1

2 Magnolia Warbler white eyebrow & wing patch; yellow below w/ black necklace and streaks; black face and back; white tail band but gray face; no necklace; wing bars short "weeta weeta weetsee" or "sweeter sweeter SWEETEST" Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler rare very rare, permanent resident open forest river bottoms, oakpine pine forest chestnut cheeks; yellow below w/ black streaks dark blue above; black face, throat & sides; white below; small white wing patch but duller; gray cheeks olive brown; thin white eyebrow; small white wing spot yellow rump + sides + crown; black breast and side streaks; black face; but duller; blue-gray above lacks yellow crown olive back; yellow face + black throat and side streaks but duller flaming orange throat, face; black ear patch; black back, white wing patch but duller yellow throat; black eye mask extends down sides into streaks; white eyebrow; gray above yellow breast + 2 white wing bars + lack of other marks; faint breast streaks but duller high, thin "seet seet seet seet seet" husky "beer beer beer beer bee" loose, jingling trill, dropping or rising in pitch at end; oftenheard call is flat "chep" "zoo zee zoo zoo zee" or rising "zee zee zee zee zoo zee" very high "tsi tsi tsi tsi titititi tseeeee" slurred, descending whistles, rising at end "teedl teedl teedle teedle tew tew twee" fast or slow trill, more musical than Chipping Sparrow most consistently found at St. Francis Sunken Lands WMA adults brown w/ brown breast streaks; lack yellow crown may creep along branches like a nuthatch brightness of yellow and streaks variable 2

3 Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Worm-eating Warbler, rare spring, very rare old fields with saplings, young pine stands mature forest with complex canopy; bottomlands or on slopes mature deciduous or mixed bottomlands, moist uplands swamps, streams, sloughs ravines and hillsides of moist forests yellow below; black side streaks; 2 black face marks; reddish streaks on olive back chestnut cap; red side streaks on yellow underparts; yellow undertail coverts reddish-brown (bay) cap, throat, sides; black face; buff neck; blackish above gray w/ black streaks; black cap; white cheeks blue above; white below; narrow black bar across chest; black side streaks striped lengthwise w/ black and white; striped crown; black throat black; orange patches on sides, wings, tail golden yellow w/ bluegray wings & tail brown; black & buff head stripes but duller musical buzzes rising in pitch "zee zee zee zee zee zee zeet" bobs tail but duller weak trill "zhe-zhe-zhezhe-zhe" bobs tail high, sibilant, doubled "teesi teesi teesi teesi" like Black-and-white but much duller Warbler but duller; very high, rapid, greenish above; lacks mechanical "zi-zi-zi-zi-zizi" black cap on one pitch blue-green above; white below; faintly streaked; white eyebrow buzzy, ending high "zray zray zray zreee" squeaky wheelbarrow "weesee weesee but throat white weesee weesee" patterned but gray-green instead of black and yellow instead of orange creeps along trunks and branches like a nuthatch variable, rapid, often dropping at end, "tsee tsee tsee tseeo" or "zee often spreads zee zee zwee" wings and tail one-pitched "sweet sweet sweet sweet" dry, insect-like trill or rattle feeds in leaf litter 3

4 Swainson's Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler canebreaks in slurred, like Louisiana brown; reddish-brown Waterthrush, "seew bottomlands cap; white eyebrow seew see SISTerville" hard to see extensive s with abundant leaf litter streams shrubby forest understory and edge brown above; white below; black breast streaks; orange and black crown patch brown above; yellowish below; dark breast streaks onto throat; yellowish eyebrow brown above; white below; brown breast streaks not on throat; white eyebrow yellow below; black sideburns extend from eyes; yellow spectacles emphatic "tea-cher tea-cher tea-cher" emphatic notes falling in pitch & accelerating, "twit twit twit seet seet chew chew chew" series of down-slurred whistles followed by jumble rolling "churry churry churry churry" underside color can be hard to determine in shaded understory underside color can be hard to determine in shaded understory Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler very rare spring, rare wet weedy, brushy, or marshy open areas dense shrubby understory of mature forest yellow below; gray hood + white eye ring yellow below; gray hood + black bib brown above, yellow breast, throat; black mask boarded by white above yellow below; black cowl encircles yellow face but duller but lacks bib but duller, lacks mask but black limited to edge of face "chip-chup-ee chipchup-ee chip-chup-ee chip" "chirry chirry chorry chorry", chorry lower rolling, chanting "witchity witchity witchity witch"; call a husky "tchep" loud, whistled "weeta weeta wee-tee-o" 4

5 Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat rapid chatter dropping at end "chi chi chi chi yellow below; black cap but lacks cap chi chet chet" shrublands, regenerating clearcuts gray above; yellow below; necklace of short black stripes large-bodied; largebilled, long-tailed; yellow throat, breast; white spectacles, moustache but necklace fainter staccato burst, "chip chupety sweet-ditchety" unmusical series of whistles w/ single harsh notes, squeaks; like Mockingbird but slower, longer pauses Sources: David Sibley The Sibley Guide to Birds. Knopf. Douglas James and Joseph Neal Arkansas birds: their distribution and abundance. Univ. of Arkansas Press Lang Elliot, Donald Stokes, and Lillian Stokes Stokes field guide to bird songs. Time Warner AudioBooks. Roger Tory Peterson A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. 5th ed. Houghton Mifflin. Compiled by Dan Scheiman, Ph.D., Bird Conservation Director 5