Paruline à couronne rousse— Quebec wildlife

The palm warbler (Setophaga palmarum) is a small songbird in the New World warbler family.

Description

Measurements: Length: 12–14 cm (4.7–5.5 in) Wingspan: 20–21 cm (7.9–8.3 in) Weight: 8.5–14.2 g (0.30–0.50 oz)

Habitat and range

Palm warblers breed in open coniferous bogs and edge east of the Continental Divide, across Canada and the northeastern United States. The bird breeds in the United States, Canada and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and is also found in non-breeding populations throughout eastern North America, Central America and the Caribbean, as far south as Panama. There have also been occasional vagrant occurrences in parts of South America, Bermuda, Iceland and the United Kingdom. The palm warbler's habitat includes shrublands, forests, grasslands, wetlands, and human-modified environments. These birds migrate to the southeastern United States, the Yucatán Peninsula, islands of the Caribbean, and eastern Nicaragua south to Panama to winter. They are one of the earlier migrants to return to their breeding grounds in the spring, often completing their migration almost two months before most other warblers. Unlike most Setophaga species, the palm warbler's winter range includes much of the Atlantic coast of North America, extending as far north as southern Nova Scotia. Every year since 1900 the palm warbler has been observed during Christmas Bird Count activities in Massachusetts, and consistently since 1958 in Nova Scotia. For the interval 1966–2015 the palm warbler population increased throughout much of its northernmost breeding range. The palm warbler has been recorded as a vagrant to Iceland.