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Chestnut-sided Warbler

Setophaga pensylvanica ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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A common bird of second growth and scrubby forests, the Chestnut-sided Warbler is distinctive in appearance. No other warbler combines a greenish-yellow cap, a white breast, and reddish streaks down the sides.

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Calls

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

Song a series of musical notes, usually accented at the end: "pleased, pleased, pleased to MEETCHA."

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