Cerulean Warbler

About the Cerulean Warbler

The Cerulean Warbler is a small songbird. Adult males have pale cerulean-blue upperparts and white underparts with a black necklace across the breast. They also have black streaks on the back and flanks. Females and immature birds have greyer or greenish upperparts, a pale stripe over the eye, and no streaking on the back and no necklace. All of theses birds, regardless of their age, have wing bars and a thin pointed bill.

Their breeding habitats are mature deciduous forests in eastern North America and they migrate to forested mountain areas in South America. Their nests are cup-shaped, and are placed on a horizontal branch high in a hardwood tree.

They forage actively high in trees, sometimes catching insects in flight.

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Details & Statistics

Added to Birdorable
Hatched on 13 June 2007
Scientific Name
Dendroica cerulea
  • Passeriformes
  • Parulidae
  • Dendroica
  • D. cerulea
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Conservation Status
Vulnerable (as of 6 April 2020)
VU
  • Least Concern (LC)
  • Near Threatened (NT)
  • Vulnerable (VU)
  • Endangered (EN)
  • Critically Endangered (CR)
  • Extinct in the Wild (EW)
  • Extinct (EX)
Source: IUCN Red List
Measurements
Units: Imperial / Metric
4 inches

Range

Conservation

From IUCN Red List:
The Cerulean Warbler is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and was last assessed in 2012 by BirdLife International. This species is listed as Vulnerable, because its population is estimated to have undergone a rapid decline owing to continuing habitat loss and fragmentation on its breeding and wintering grounds.

International Names

Brazilian (Português brasileiro) Mariquita-azul
Czech (Cesky) Lesňáček Modropláštíkový
Danish (Dansk) Cyanblå Sanger
Dutch (Nederlands) Azuurzanger
Finnish (Suomi) Latvuskerttuli
French (Français) Paruline Azurée
German (Deutsch) Pappelwaldsänger
Italian (Italiano) Dendroica Cerulea
Japanese (日本語) ミズイロアメリカムシクイ (Mizuiroamerikamushikui)
Polish (Polski) Lasówka Niebieska
Russian (русский язык) Голубой лесной певун
Spanish (Español) Chipe Cerúleo
Swedish (Svenska) Blåvit Skogssångare
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