{Above
graphic citation: Hunt, Pamela D. and Bonita C. Eliason. 1999. Blackpoll
Warbler (Setophaga striata), The Birds of North America
Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the
Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/431
doi:10.2173/bna.431}
The answer, Justin (in Sheboygan, WI), is the Blackpoll Warbler.
Nesting in boreal spruce and fir forests of Alaska, Canada,
and the n.e. USA, the northern-most portion of this common warbler’s range is a
vast swath encompassing Alaska (south
of the Brooks Range to the base of Alaska Peninsula); the mouth of Mackenzie
River (Yukon), and n.-central British Columbia; east through w. and s.
Mackenzie, s. Keewatin, and northern portions of Alberta (south to Banff in
Canadian Rockies), Saskatchewan and Manitoba (south to roughly 54°N), and
Ontario (south to south end of James Bay); to central Quebec (south of Ungava
Peninsula), central Labrador, Newfoundland, the Maritime Provinces, and the ne.
U.S.
Its most southern
latitudinal location (i.e., southeastern portion of its nesting range) is in
eastern NY (Adirondacks and Catskills; ne. Massachusetts; Vermont (Green Mtns);
and New Hampshire (White Mtns.) n. and se. Maine, se. Quebec (Laurentides
Provincial Park to Gaspe Peninsula;; n. and sw. New Brunswick, and sw. and n.
Nova Scotia (including Cape Breton I.).
Interestingly, it’s
possible an isolated breeding range for this species occurs in n.w. Oregon,
based on a 1976 discovery of young in this area.
Which other
warblers breed nearly as far north?
The Palm Warbler
subspecies known commonly as “Western Palm Warbler” (Setopha palmarium palmarum) nests in habitat corresponding to the
distribution of bogs and fens in boreal forests of Canada and the northern
United States.
