Limnothlypis swainsonii
adult
Swainson’s Warbler is a rather plain-looking little songbird. The sexes are similar, as are adults and immatures. All birds are gray-brown on the wings, back, and nape, and have a rufous crown. The face is overall rather pale but marked with a brown eye stripe and gray-brown cheeks; these frame the long, pale supercilium. The underparts, including the throat, are pale with a subtle gray suffusion on the flanks.
Swainson’s Warbler is present as a breeding species in southeast U.S.A. mainly from April to September. It spends the rest of the year in Central America and the Caribbean region. It is one of the trickiest wood warblers to observe, partly because it is secretive but also because it forages in deep undergrowth.
adult
FACT FILE
LENGTH 5.5 in (14 cm)
FOOD Invertebrates
HABITAT Inundated woodland in valley bottoms and damp rhododendron thickets
STATUS Scarce summer visitor
VOICE Song is a clear twee-twee-twe-tsu-twe-tsu. Call is a sharp tchip
