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Bay-breasted Warbler

Setophaga castanea ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A large warbler of the northern spruce forests, the Bay-breasted Warbler benefits from spruce budworm outbreaks when the caterpillars provide abundant food. Spraying to control the destructive outbreaks may have reduced populations of this warbler.

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Calls

  • Song, calls
    Recorded by William W. H. Gunn, Randolph Scott Little
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song very high-pitched "seetzy, seetzy, seetzy."

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