• Skip to Content
  • Skip to Main Navigation
  • Skip to Local Navigation
  • Skip to Search
  • Skip to Sitemap
  • Skip to Footer
Help develop a Bird ID tool!

Swainson's Warbler

Limnothlypis swainsonii ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

One of the most secretive and least observed of all North American birds, the Swainson's Warbler is a skulking bird of the southern canebrakes and rhododendron thickets. If it weren't for its loud, ringing song, the presence of the species in many areas would go completely undetected.

Get BNA: the definitive resource for North American birds
Donate to Bird Cams

Calls

  • Song, call
    Recorded by Gregory F. Budney, Theodore A. Parker III, William W. H. Gunn
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a series of loud, ringing, descending slurred whistles, ending in four or five jumbled notes. "So, so, so, so, sweet-to-hear."

Get BNA: the definitive resource for North American birds
Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos