Pine Warbler
Setophaga pinus
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 5-8 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Coniferous forest
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Common
About
This small songbird lives exclusively in the canopy of mature pine forests. It is the only warbler that regularly eats seeds, using its thick bill to crack open pine cones.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully 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 pinus