Description: Size: 11-13 cm in length with a 17-19 cm wingspan. They are alternately arranged on the branches. Family: (Parulidae) Wood-Warblers. The bird found in the magnolia tree became the Magnolia Warbler. It was during this time of year that the Magnolia Warbler got its name. The Magnolia Warbler, Dendroica magnolia, is a New World warbler. Although it is small and very active, the Magnolia Warbler is not as difficult to observe as some warblers, because it often stays low in shrubbery and short trees. They prefer pine, red maple, spruce or balsam fir trees. Magnolia has grey to brown bark that is smooth when the plant is young. The Magnolia Warbler in breeding plumage has black or black and green upperparts, a gray head with a white eyeline, a yellow throat and underparts, and heavy black streaking on the sides. This species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. The Magnolia Warbler, Dendroica magnolia , is a New World warbler. [Magnolia Warbler] 8G7D5078 by bmajoros. Fun Facts: The oldest known Magnolia Warbler in the wild was 10 years old. The Inca Tern's dashing white mustaches are seen on both male and female birds. Polytypic (6 ssp.). The Magnolia Warbler in breeding plumage has black or black and green upperparts, a gray head with a white eyeline, a yellow throat and underparts, and heavy black streaking on the sides. They prefer to stay low in trees and bushes as they forage for food. Length 5.3". Notes by Susan Billetdeaux: Magnolia Warblers frequently fan their tails, revealing wide white patches on each side of the tail. Unaka and Roan Mountains in northeastern Tennessee are places where they may be seen in the breeding season. The Nashville Warbler is a boreal forest breeder on its way not to Tennessee (despite its name) but up the Mississippi Valley to the North Woods. Magnolia Warblers are sometimes nicknamed Spruce Warbler because of one of their preferred breeding habitats. It is migratory, wintering in Central America. ... Fun Facts. Magnolia warbler . The song is a weety-weety-weeteo whistle. It breeds across most of Canada as well as New England and the Great Lakes region of the U.S.

Smallest Warbler Species The smallest New World warbler is Lucy's Warbler, which averages just 4.2 inches tall.

Built in June on the fork of a horizontal conifer branch near the trunk at low to moderate height, the yellow-rumped Warbler’s nest contains 3 to 6 eggs. Magnolia has dark green, oval shaped leaves that are covered with layer of wax. A white bar across the center of a black tail can be seen in flight.

Plumage: Breeding males are mainly black above, with a white rear eyebrow stripe below a grey crown and a white panel across the wing coverts, and yellow below, with distinctive black streaks from the breast to the flanks. The species was first described for science in 1810 by ornithologist Alexander Wilson, who discovered an individual in a magnolia tree in Mississippi during migration.