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Cerulean Warbler

Setophaga cerulea ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Vulnerable

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Cerulean Warbler Photo

© Bill Dyer/CLO

A small bird of the deciduous forest treetops, the sky-blue Cerulean Warbler is hard to see. It nests and forages higher in the canopy than most other warblers.

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Calls

  • Song, calls
    Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller; Robert C. Stein
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Buzzy notes ending in a higher pitched trill, "zee zee zee zizizizi eeet."

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