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Systematic list - part 22: Warblers (4)

 

Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata (formerly Dendroica striata) (4)

1 landed on a birder's knee on board the MV Playmate between Key West and Dry Tortugas 20th, later entering the cabin before eventually leaving the boat and flying to Hospital Key. Also 3 at Dry Tortugas (Garden Key) 20th only.

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Blackpoll Warbler, on board MV Playmate between Key West and Dry Tortugas, 20th April

 

Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens (formerly Dendroica caerulescens) (13)

6 Everglades (2 Royal Palm Hammock, 1 Gumbo Limbo Trail, 2 Mahogany Trail, 1 Long Pine Key) 18th, 3 Dry Tortugas (Garden Key) 20th (1 on 21st), 1 Fort Zachary 23rd, 1 Lake Edna 23rd, 1 Bill Baggs 24th and 1 Mattheson Hammock 27th. All except for 1 at Royal Palm Hammock and 1 at Garden Key were males.

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Black-throated Blue Warbler, Bill Baggs, 24th April

 

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Black-throated Blue Warblers, Bill Baggs, 24th April (left) and Royal Palm Hammock, Everglades, 18th April (right)

 

Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum (formerly Dendroica palmarum) (35)

2 Tamiami Trail (S-334) 14th, 5 Babcock Webb 15th, 1 Ding Darling 16th, 5 Everglades (1 Long Pine Key, 4 Luck Hammock), up to 5 Dry Tortugas (Garden Key) 20th-22nd, 3 Fort Zachary 23rd, 1 Bahia Honda State Park 23rd, 5 Lake Edna 23rd and 2 Bill Baggs 24th. Nearly all the multiple-count records involved single flocks rather than counts of dispersed birds.

None seemed to show the extensive yellow that is typical of the eastern form so I assume they were all western - is this to be expected?

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Palm Warbler, Garden Key, 21st April

 

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Palm Warblers, Lucky Hammock, 18th April (left) and Babcock-Webb, 15th April (right)

 

Pine Warbler Setophaga pinus (formerly Dendroica pinus) (5)

3 Babcock-Webb 15th and 2 (pair) Everglades (at start of road to Mahogany Trail) 18th.

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Pine Warbler, Babcock-Webb, 15th April

 

Yellow-throated Warbler Setophaga dominica (formerly Dendroica dominica) (1)

1 Dry Tortugas (Garden Key) 20th & 21st - a bird to have you drooling if ever there was one. A white-lored bird on its way to the interior - eastern birds have yellow lores.

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Yellow-throated Warbler, Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, 20th April

 

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Yellow-throated Warbler, Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, 21st April

 

Prairie Warbler Setophaga discolor (formerly Dendroica discolor) (32)

1 singing Chokolosee 17th, 3 heard singing Everglades 18th (2 West Lake, 1 near Snake Bight Trail), 1 Key Largo 19th, 3 heard singing Big Pine Key 19th, 1 Dry Tortugas (Garden Key) 20th, 3 heard singing Boca Chica Road 23rd, 6 singing (5 heard only) Sugarloaf 23rd, 4 Fort Zachary 23rd, 8 Everglades (6 Snake Bight Trail, some only heard singing, 1 Eco Pond, 1 heard singing Amphitheater) and 2 Bill Baggs 24th. Numbers were helped by the fact that many birds were singing and the song was easily learned.

I'm not clear how to separate the Florida race of Prairie Warbler from the nominate form but I imagine most of those singing in mangroves would have been Florida Prairie Warblers while those at migration hotspots were as likely to be nominate birds?

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Prairie Warbler, Bill Baggs, 24th April

 

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Prairie Warbler, Garden Key, 20th April

 

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Prairie Warbler, Garden Key, 21st April

 

Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens (formerly Dendroica virens) (2)

2 Everglades (Mahogany Trail) 18th. One was a smart male, the other a scruffy bird (does the limited black on the throat make it a young male, or can females have this?).

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Black-throated Green Warbler, Mahogany Hammock, Everglades, 18th April

 

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