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Pine Warbler |
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Dendroica pinus |
| Description: 5 1/2" unstreaked olive/yellow above, with yellow throat and breast; blurry streaking below, white belly inconspicuous eye stripe, two white wing bars, female and immature similar but duller and lack yellow on breast | Habitat: Open pine forests, pine barrens, open mixed woodlands, scrublands. In migration, in deciduous trees, orchards, lowland thickets, overgrown fields, mangrove swamps (winter) as well as pines. Usually tame and approachable. Will alight on pine trunks, much like a nuthatch |
| Nesting: 4 brown-spotted white eggs in a compact nest well concealed among pine needles near the tip of a horizontal branch, usually 20' and higher | Range: breeds from Canada south to Texas, winters in southern states north to New England |
| Voice: musical and somewhat melancholy, a soft sweet version of the trill of the Chirping Sparrow | Diet:
Largely insects, spiders; when insects scarce, takes pine, grass, and forb seeds, fruit, berries. |
| Notes: Tends to stay near tops of trees, aptly named - nests exclusively in pines and spends most of life there, in winter, often associates with other warblers and bluebirds, and occurs in a wider range of habitats. |
| When present in Oklahoma: mostly eastern half of state, more abundant in summer months |