Stats

Lifespan: 5-8 yrs
Size: Tiny
Diet: Insectivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Flock
Biome: Temperate shrubland
Range: North America
Movement: Flight
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Common

About

One of North America's plainest warblers, its namesake orange crown patch is usually hidden and only flashes into view when the bird is agitated or displaying. It forages methodically through shrubby thickets, gleaning insects and sipping sap from holes drilled by sapsuckers.

Life cycle

1.
egg
A small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
2.
hatchling
A pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
3.
juvenile
A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
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: Leiothlypis
Species: Leiothlypis celata