Vermivora chrysoptera
ORDER: PASSERIFORMES
FAMILY: PARULIDAE
© Isidor Jeklin/CLO
The Golden-winged Warbler is a small, strikingly marked warbler of eastern early successional habitats. Its population increased for over 100 years as forests were cut down. Now, however, it is losing ground, both because of reforestation and displacement by the spreading Blue-winged Warbler.