CERULEAN WARBLER

This small, active, insect-eating four inch long bird is having reproductive and population decline problems. With its thin, pointed bill, colored pale bluish on top with dark stripes on its back is receiving help through some North American Programs. Though not as bright in color as some other warblers people recognize the Cerulean Warbler is by its white belly with a slender stripe across their chest. The female and immature warblers have white around her eyes a tint of bluish color, particularly on their cap.

The Cerulean Warbler in the northern states breeds in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and New York. It also breeds in the New England States. You will also find the bird in parts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and North Carolina. The warbler also visits Ontario Province in Canada.

Winters in South America in Peru and Bolivia. The some Cerulean Warblers spend their winters in Cuba, Grand Cayaman Islands and Southern Mexico.

The bird favors tall moist hard wood swamp and bottom land woodlands and shaded, developed upland forests. The birds prefers open woods with lofty trees and hardly any under growth.

The Cerulean Warbler usually constructs its nest from 20 to 90 feet above ground away from the trunk of the tree. They like to build their nests on a limb that are free from vegetation below. Some of the nesting trees are elm, oaks, maples, basswood, and yellow poplar.

Its main diet consists of insects collected from leaves or caught in the air.

The information blow is from the Cerulean Warbler Habitat Saved in Upstate New York. (http://www.audubon.org/news/release98/ce...

Thanks to a private landowner working with local birders and conservationists, this spring the voice of the Cerulean Warbler will continue to be heard throughout a forest of black walnut trees along Salmon Creek in Lansing, NY.

Now, one of the Cerulean Warbler's most critical sites in New York will be saved. "The preservation of Salmon Creek shows the positive result of cooperation between private individuals, government and nonprofit groups working together to achieve a common goal," said Jeff Wells, Director of Bird Conservation for National Audubon Society of New York State.

Salmon Creek had been long known among local birders as a prime location to see the beautiful Cerulean Warbler. Last year, volunteers for the Cerulean Warbler Atlas Project, carried out by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and Partners in Flight, documented the presence of 40-50 breeding pairs. This led, in turn, to Salmon Creek being officially designated an Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society. After this designation was given to Salmon Creek, the owner of the land offered to sell 16 acres containing the habitat to the Finger Lakes Land Trust. Another 13 acres are currently in negotiation.

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