Prairie Warbler
The Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolour) is a small warbler with the upper parts of its body covered in yellowish olive green, the back with chestnut spots and two yellowish wing bars, to name a few distinguishing details.
Magnolia Warbler
The Prairie Warbler does not live in the prairies at all which one would think but rather in a treed are in bushes and saplings and in the central and lower Ontario Great Lakes Area. It winters in the United States as far south as the Florida Keys. The Prairie Warbler prefers to live in areas which have bushes and saplings in which to build their nests which are made of plant down, grass and leaves and lined with rootlets, hair, feathers and cottony plant materials. The size of the Prairie Warbler ranges up to 8-9 cm.
A Magnolia Warbler Sings
The warbler you put under “Prairie warbler” is in fact a Magnolia Warlber. It has the distictive udertail pattern of the Magnolia as well as the face pattern, white undertail-coverts, and white wing-bars.
Prairie warblers look very different.
Thanks to Anya for pointing out that the photos were actually Magnolia Warblers. The captions for the images have been updated and will hopefully be replaced with new photos when spring arrives and the weather for photography is better. If anyone has any photos they have taken of Prairie Warblers that they would like to send in, please feel free to send them to us.