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Photo Capture # 67 – Double-crested Cormorants

Double-crested Cormorants

Double -crested Cormorants

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Red Gallery – Northern Cardinal

The Northern Cardinals that you’ve seen posted every Saturday, are members of several families nesting in my backyard. They have been there for approximately 13 years. When I had my house built there and moved to Georgia from New Jersey. Since then I’ve been captivated by their beauty. I just hope that they will remain in this location for ever. ~ H.J.

Photo Gallery

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Bird’s ID – Pine Warbler

Pine Warbler

The Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

Standard Measurements
Length	5–5.75 in (127–146 mm)
Weight	12 g (0.42 oz)
Wingspan	8.75 in (222 mm)
Wing	68.9–72.8 mm (2.71–2.87 in)
Tail	52.9–56 mm (2.08–2.20 in)
Culmen	9.9–11.6 mm (0.39–0.46 in)
Tarsus	17.2–18.7 mm (0.68–0.74 in)

The song of this bird is a musical trill. Their calls are slurred chips.

Their breeding habitats are open pine woods in eastern North America. These birds are permanent residents in southern Florida. Some of them, however, migrate to northeastern Mexico and islands in the Caribbean. The first record for South America was a vagrant wintering female seen at Vista Nieve, Colombia, on 20 November 2002; this bird was foraging as part of a mixed-species feeding flock that also included wintering Blackburnian and Tennessee warblers.

They forage slowly on tree trunks and branches by poking their bill into pine cones. These birds also find food by searching for it on the ground. These birds mainly eat insects, seeds and berries.

Their nests are deep, open cups, which are placed near the end of a tree branch. Pine warblers prefer to nest in pine trees, hence their names. Three to five blotched white eggs are laid.