Stats

Lifespan

4-7 yrs

Size

Tiny

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Pair

Biome

Temperate forest

Range

North America

Movement

Flight

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Common

About

A tiny, compact warbler of North American woodlands with a bluish-gray back, yellow-green patch, and yellow throat crossed by a dark breast band. It nests almost exclusively in hanging strands of Spanish moss or old man's beard lichen, weaving its cup nest directly into the epiphyte.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage and song.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Parulidae

Genus

Setophaga

Species

Setophaga americana