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Black-and-white Warbler

Mniotilta varia ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Distinctive in both plumage and behavior, the Black-and-white Warbler forages for insects while creeping along the trunks and branches of trees. Common in summer throughout the eastern United States and Canada, it has an unusually extensive winter range that extends from Florida to Venezuela and Colombia.

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Calls

  • Song, calls
    Recorded by Gregory F. Budney; Robert C. Stein
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a series of very high, two-syllable phrases, resembling the sound of a squeaky wheel; "wee-see-wee-see-wee-see." Call note is a sharp chip.

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