Warbler Guy, which warbler app exists for me to buy (if any)?

Excellent idea, Joannie.

I suggest you purchase the fine wood-warbler-centric app that corresponds to The Warbler Guide:

It's found at the iTunes Store.

Buying the book is also a good idea, if you wish a nice resource to complement the classic Warbler field guide in the Peterson Guide Series (Peterson Guide To Warblers, Jon Dunn & Kimball Garrett, 1997, Houghton Mifflin).

Warbler Guy, one of my New Year's resolutions is to learn warblers better. How so?

Warbler Tips Identification Chart

One idea, Jenni (in Cincinnati):

How about trying my Warbler Tips Identification Chart that is at my web site (warblerwatch.com) via you pasting this # into your browser:

http://warblerwatch.com/birding-links/warbler-tips-id-charts/

There's other free, printer-friendly birding information and ID help at my web site's "Birding Links" area, if you also wish to peruse it (?)

Or feel free to float me another questions here.

We aim to please.

Regards and happy new year, Daniel Edelstein

Avian Biologist

&

Certified Wildlife Biologist Associate

Leading birding tours since 1985

warblerwatch.com

Warbler Guy, was 2015 a successful breeding season in Wisconsin for the endangered Kirtland's Warbler? Where does the Kirtland's Warbler breed in WI?

Jerry, there's a wonderful news release at the following web site link (next paragraph) that highlights the successful breeding of Kirtland's Warbler during the past 2015 nesting season in Wisconsin.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/environment/kirtland-s-warbler-has-its-most-successful-wisconsin-breeding-season/article_71e182d2-d743-5964-9d5c-081197fc8c98.html

Wow, time migrates quickly, given:

It's amazing for eight straight breeding seasons the federally endangered Kirtland's Warbler how bred successfully in the Badger State.

Of course, the largest number of newborn Kirtland's occur annually in Michigan (more than 1,000 males are present annually in Michigan during the breeding season).

There's also one ongoing, annual Kirkland's nesting site in Ontario (see graphic/figure, below).

Warbler Guy: Which wood-warbler species' utilize non-breeding season habitat in the tropics that includes "shade grown" coffee farms? In theory, is it correct that changing coffee drinking patterns favoring "shade grown" coffee could benefit songbirds such as wood-warblers?

The brief answer, Jeremiah (in Rockford, IL)

is to note that several wood-warbler species likely

benefit from changed coffee farming methods that

favor “shade-grown” coffee, including Canada, Wilson's, Black-throated Green, and Cerulean Warbler. Cerulean populations, in specific, have dropped precipitously, perhaps in part due to habitat destruction of their "wintering" grounds (per Breeding Bird Survey trends and results suggested by other monitoring efforts).

To learn more (go to the ShadeCoffee.org web site) and/or see the following two links:

http:nationalzoo.si.edu/scbi.migratorybirds/coffee

(For a nice overview of a blog site article related to the benefits of using "shade grown" coffee as your morning delight choice, please see: http://naturallyavian.blogspot.com)

http://www.fws.gov/birds/documents/LR-CoffeeBirds.pdf

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Q-jkmF-HQo0J:www.birdsandbeans.com/FactSheetonMigratoryBirdsinShadeCoffeePlantations.pdf+wood-warbler+coffee&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgo8sf7YWBtzwF50tIobylT4yhhqTVHtvs4vE3ujvWkY7ojYEkbcXcnMcV1NnuG-Us4KwjijFJPnZHbMZr4IsoYcLk7vXHs4RjZYBe-hbao2RUJv5QcEXLoT6Cpy7V5uxSW8Eh0&sig=AHIEtbR537Bc4GGn3274ZYuQ-eVv6Rs0zg

Warbler Guy: Did nesting Kirtland's Warbler in Wisconsin occur again in 2015? Wisconsin Kirtland's Warbler nesting occurs annually in Wisconsin?

Gail:

Yes and yes...and more 2015 details appear below with a summary from the WI DNR's web site:

Kirtland’s Warbler Monitoring Summary

Three banded nestlings, Adams County. Photo courtesy of Sarah Warner (USFWS).

Summary Highlights

• 15 males and 14 females were confirmed in Adams County, 3 males and 2 females in Marinette County, 3 males in Bayfield County


• 15 nesting attempts were made by 14 pairs in Adams County, 1 nesting attempt by 1 pair in Marinette County


• 8 of the 15 Adams County males had been banded in previous years; 1 of those was banded as a nestling 2014


• 3 of the 14 Adams County females had been banded in previous years


• 16 nests: 15 in Adams County, 1 in Marinette County


• 13 nests were successful: 12 in Adams County, 1 in Marinette County


• 36-53 young fledged: 34-51 in Adams County, 2 in Marinette County

Warbler Guy, are there any New World warblers that occur in their own family and where shall I look?

The Olive Warbler, Peucedramus taeniatus , is a small passerine bird. It is the only member of the genus Peucedramus and the family Peucedramidae.                      

Answers: Latest Fab Four Warbler Photo Quiz From 9/10/15 Post (right side column here)

Here's the answer for those folks who voted at the latest quiz (right side column referring
to the 9/10/15 photo quiz that you can see by scrolling down to that date where the four photos appear).

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From top to bottom photo, the images are these wood-warbler species (that I am lucky to see
while birding in WI, (and, to "impress" birders that I guide on a tour the songs of these species are some of the more easier ones to distinguish in the Parulidae/wood-warbler family):

Pine
Prothonotary
Worm-eating
Yellow-breasted Chat (in weird light, I agree: Its breast looks orange and NOT yellow!)