Canada Warbler

Canada Warbler

Cardellina canadensis

Introduction

Canada Warbler is a very rare vagrant from North America. The first UK record was discovered in Wales in October 2023, amazingly by the same person who found a Magnolia Warbler a handful of days earlier on the same stretch of coast. Autumn 2023 saw unprecedented numbers of American vagrant passerines discovered in Britain and Ireland, carried by fast-moving Atlantic weather systems. Canada Warbler breed in Canada and the USA and is a long-distance migrant, wintering in central American and northern South America.

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Movement

Information about Canada Warbler movements and migration based on online bird portals (e.g. BirdTrack), Ringing schemes and tracking studies.

European movements

EuroBirdPortal uses birdwatcher's records, such as those logged in BirdTrack to map the flows of birds as they arrive and depart Europe. See maps for this species here.

Biology

Lifecycle and body size information for Canada Warbler, including statistics on nesting, eggs and lifespan based on BTO ringing and nest recording data.

Survival and Longevity

Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.

Classification, names and codes

Taxonomy, names and species codes for Canada Warbler

Classification and Codes

  • Order: Passeriformes
  • Family: Parulidae
  • Scientific name: Cardellina canadensis
  • Authority: Linnaeus, 1776
  • Euring code number: 17730

Alternate species names

  • Catalan: bosquerola del Canadà
  • Czech: les?á?ek kanadský
  • Danish: Canada-sanger
  • Dutch: Canadese Zanger
  • Estonian: viirpugu-säälik
  • Finnish: viirurintakerttuli
  • French: Paruline du Canada
  • German: Kanadawaldsänger
  • Hungarian: örvös lombjáró
  • Icelandic: Haustskríkja
  • Italian: Parula canadese
  • Latvian: Kan?das ?au?is
  • Lithuanian: kanadin? vilsonija
  • Norwegian: Kanadaparula
  • Polish: wilsonka kanadyjska
  • Portuguese: mariquita-do-canadá
  • Slovak: horárik kanadský
  • Slovenian: apalaški frfotav?ek
  • Spanish: Reinita canadiense
  • Swedish: kanadaskogssångare

More Evidence

More evidence from Conservation Evidence.com

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