Chestnut-sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
- HABITAT - Chestnut-Sided Warbler prefers bushy, sunny clearings and are taking advantage of the logging and forest clearing throughout their region. In the tropics where they winter however, the species occurs mostly in mature tropical rainforests. They breed in eastern North America around the Great Lakes Region, into the prairies and northern states.
- DIET -Chestnut-Sided Warbler are mainly insectivores. During nesting season they eat caterpillars, flies, small moths, small grasshoppers, beetles and spiders and a few berries. They eat slightly more berries in winter in the tropics, but insects still make up most of their diet.
- FACTS - These warblers are one of the few that are ore common today than in early 19th century, with much greater area of second growth brush in East. Numbers may have declined somewhat in recent decades.
- Like many warblers, the Chestnut-Sided Warbler fall plumage is quite different than the breeding colours. (see picture below)
Chestnut-sided GALLERY
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