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Palm Warbler |
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Dendroica palmarum |
| Description: 4 1/2-5" Olive-drab, streaked, ground-feeding warbler with bright olive rump, bright yellow undertail coverts, and distinctive tail- wagger, underparts vary from yellow to whitish buff adults in spring have rufous cap | Habitat: . Very common in marshes, swamps, streamside groves, in summer bogs in the north, during migration, open places especially weedy fields and borders of marshes |
| Nesting: 4-5 brown-speckled eggs in a grass nest fashioned with shreds of bark and lined with feathers and roots, placed on the ground or in a grass clump. | Range: breeds from west-central Canada east and south to north U.S. |
| Voice: weak dry trill | Diet: insects, worms, and a few berries |
| Notes: Principal victim of cowbird, warbler often responds by burying it along with some of its own eggs underneath a new nest, nests with up to six layers have been found, females occasionally steal nesting material from each other, quite tame garden bird in east, one of the first spring arrivals, ground feeder. |
| When present in Oklahoma: during winter in extreme east/west portions and during migration |