Birds Identified: Blackpoll Warbler
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Blackpoll Warbler has these characteristics:
- Hopping or climbing
- Smaller than robin
- Mostly black and white, or other dark color and white
- Mostly dull green or brownish green
- Streaks (long spots)
- Crown patch
- Wing bands or bars
- North summer (June through August)
- Wood habitat
- Perched high (generally above middle of trees when perched or foraging)
- Perched low (generally below middle of trees when perched or foraging)
- Staccato and twitter call (short sharp notes or rapid series of notes: tinkling, trilling, sputtering, or percussive)
- High or thin song (high pitched and weak; lisping, sizzling, or hissing quality)
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Eric Haines,
erich@acm.org