Listen to the Blackpoll warbler
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About the Blackpoll warbler
The Blackpoll warbler is a bird in the family Parulidae (order Passeriformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “near threatened”. Adults weigh around 12 g.
What does the Blackpoll warbler sound like?
Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once. Songs tend to be long and patterned and are used to hold territory and attract a mate; calls are short signals for contact, alarm and flight.
The recordings here are labelled as call. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
The blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata) is a New World warbler. Breeding males are mostly black and white. They have a prominent black cap, white cheeks, and white wing bars. The blackpoll breeds in forests of northern North America, from Alaska throughout most of Canada, to the Adirondack Mountains of New York as well as New England in the Northeastern United States. They are a common migrant throughout much of North America. In fall, they fly south to the Greater Antilles and the northeastern coasts of South America in a non-stop long-distance migration over open water, averaging 2,500 km (1,600 mi), one of the longest-distance non-stop overwater flights ever recorded for a migratory songbird. Rare vagrants to western Europe, they are one of the more frequent transatlantic passerine wanderers.
Related birds in the genus Setophaga
Mangrove warbler
Setophaga petechia
Yellow-rumped warbler
Setophaga coronata
Magnolia warbler
Setophaga magnolia
Cape May warbler
Setophaga tigrina
Black-throated blue warbler
Setophaga caerulescens
Hooded warbler
Setophaga citrina
Prairie warbler
Setophaga discolor
Black-throated green warbler
Setophaga virens
More from the family Parulidae
Frequently asked questions
What does a Blackpoll warbler sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Blackpoll warbler on this page, including its call. Birds produce sound with the syrinx, a vocal organ deep in the chest that can make two independent sounds at once.
Is the Blackpoll warbler endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Blackpoll warbler as “near threatened”.
What family does the Blackpoll warbler belong to?
The Blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata) belongs to the family Parulidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources & credits
- Call · Minnehaha Creek, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United… by Jonathon Jongsma – CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q27075924 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Blackpoll warbler – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. – Public domain