Episode Number
51
Episode Show Notes / Description
Black-and-white warbler (Mniotilta varia).
A warbler with a call like a squeaky wheelbarrow.
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The following Cornell Lab | Macaulay Library recordings were used in this episode:
- Black-and-white warbler song by William W. H. Gunn (ML508979)
- Black-and-white warbler call by Robert C. Stein (ML508982)
Sources and more:
- https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-and-white_Warbler
- https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/black-and-white-warbler
- Dobson C, Kassenbaum D, Oehmke D, et al. 2023. Field guide to hotspots and birds in Illinois. Champaign-Urbana: Scissortail LLC.
- National Audubon Society videoguide to the birds of North America. 2004. Fullscreen. Carrboro, NC: Godfrey-Stadin Productions.
- Peterson RT, Peterson VM. 1980. A field guide to the birds : a completely new guide to all the birds of eastern and central North America. Fourth edition, completely revised and enlarged. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company (The Peterson field guide series ; 1).
- Sibley D. 2016. Sibley birds East : field guide to birds of eastern North America. Second edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Field guide to birds of eastern North America).
- Stokes DW, Stokes LQ. 2004. Stokes Field Guide to Warblers. 2nd ed. New York: Little, Brown (Stokes field guides).
Transcript
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when most warblers are flitting about the upper canopy delicately nipping at unseen arthropod hidden among the buds of leaves and flowers, this early migrant will be found hopping up and down the hulking sides of tree trunks and lower limbs just the way a nuthatch might. Though this warblers plumage is among the most striking and strongly contrasting of all warblers, it is nonetheless colorless.
This is the black-and-white warbler (Mniotilta varia) from the family of the wood-warblers, Parulidae
The black and white warbler’s unsteady and squeaky “wheelbarrow wheel” call is quite distinctive. Its plumage however, while equally loud, can sometimes be confused for the other primarily black and white warbler, the blackpoll. Be sure to look at the head. Where the blackpoll male has a crisp black cap, the black and white has strong stripes. Here comes that squeaky wheelbarrow again.
Thank you to the Macaulay library at the Cornell lab for our bird sounds. And thank you for tuning in to learn a new wild voice with Illinois Extension.
when most warblers are flitting about the upper canopy delicately nipping at unseen arthropod hidden among the buds of leaves and flowers, this early migrant will be found hopping up and down the hulking sides of tree trunks and lower limbs just the way a nuthatch might. Though this warblers plumage is among the most striking and strongly contrasting of all warblers, it is nonetheless colorless.
This is the black-and-white warbler (Mniotilta varia) from the family of the wood-warblers, Parulidae
The black and white warbler’s unsteady and squeaky “wheelbarrow wheel” call is quite distinctive. Its plumage however, while equally loud, can sometimes be confused for the other primarily black and white warbler, the blackpoll. Be sure to look at the head. Where the blackpoll male has a crisp black cap, the black and white has strong stripes. Here comes that squeaky wheelbarrow again.
Thank you to the Macaulay library at the Cornell lab for our bird sounds. And thank you for tuning in to learn a new wild voice with Illinois Extension.