H.J. Ruiz – Avian101

The photographs displayed on this post were taken at Celery Fields location in the west coast of Florida.

The Palm Warbler is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

The species comprises two distinct subspecies that may merit specific status.

Yellow Palm Warbler has brownish-olive upper parts and thoroughly yellow underparts with bold rufous breast and flank streaking. It migrates later in the fall.

Palm Warbler

Palm Warblers breed in open coniferous bogs and edge east of the Continental Divide, across Canada and the northeastern United States. Their nests take the form of an open cup, usually situated on or near the ground in an open area.

These birds migrate to the southeastern United States, the Yucatán Peninsula, islands of the Caribbean, and eastern Nicaragua south to Panama to winter. They are one of the earlier migrants to return to their breeding grounds in the spring, often completing their migration almost two months before most other warblers.

Palm Warblers forage on the ground much more than other warblers, sometimes flying to catch insects. These birds mainly eat insects and berries.

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