Black-and-White Warbler (Mniotilta varia)

Spring Bird Migration USA 05

The Black-and-White Warbler is easily distinguished from other warblers by the way it moves on the limbs and branches of trees. It scurries, climbs up and descends along the branches looking for insects to eat. Very often they can be seen hanging upside down on a branch in their search for nourishment. It is also distinctively marked with black and white stripes all over its body and head.

They winter in Florida, Columbia through Central America and the Carribean Islands and are some of the first warblers to migrate and the migrate through the south of the southern states and the central states in America to summer in most of the eastern states and Canadian Provinces, except British Columbia.

I first saw Black-and-White Warblers during a migration fallout caused by severe weather in Fort de Soto in Florida many years ago and it was great watching them gathering bugs from the tree bark again.

Gear: Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S, Nikkor Z Tc-1.4*

Also in Spring Bird Migration Series:

Cape May Warbler (Setophaga Tigrina)

Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia)

rothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)

Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)

Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)

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