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<\/a>\nThe white and black tail markings make it easy to identify Magnolias–if you can see the tail!<\/em><\/p>\n
The Magnolia Warbler Is A Truly Canadian Bird, At Least in Summer<\/h2>\n
According to Environment Canada<\/strong>, our country hosts over 95% of the global breeding population of this cheerful bird so \u201cCanada’s responsibility for Magnolia Warbler is very high.\u201d Fortunately so far the birds are doing well.<\/p>\n At first yellow seems like a bad colour for camoflage: but not in autumn leaves!<\/em><\/p>\n Look for the pure white from the legs back underneath.<\/em><\/p>\n There was an interesting map on the Environment Canada website<\/strong> showing where some of the banded birds have been found again.\u00a0 Some appear to have merely moved into the USA. Others have gone as far south as the Caribbean and Central America.<\/p>\n Notice the grey “necklace” on this bird.<\/em><\/p>\n Several sites mention one reason for this birds relative success is that it will use a wide variety of habitats. On the Cornell University website<\/strong><\/a>, they say when wintering the birds will occupy most landscape types in winter, except open fields, and at elevations from sea level to 1,500 metres up. That lack of specialization can be very important as humans change the landscape to suit our needs.<\/p>\n Fall Magnolias have a greenish back behind their grey cap.<\/em><\/p>\n Note the fine white eye ring.<\/em><\/p>\n It was lovely seeing this flock of Magnolias the first week in October but now they\u2019ve moved through. With luck, though, I\u2019ll see some of them again in the spring. They look a little different then:<\/p>\n Spring Magnolia.<\/em> Join In<\/strong> On a recent ramble in the Rattray I was pleasantly surprised to find myself surrounded by almost a dozen of these actively foraging friends. Their autumn outfits are different from their spring plumage so I took a few photos to highlight what to look for to identify them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25,154,40],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-birds","tag-magnolia-warblers","tag-rattray-marsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nWhere Do Magnolia Warblers Migrate To?<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nBye for Now, See You in the Spring!<\/h2>\n
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\nHave you seen some Magnolia Warblers, maybe even in your blossoming Magnolia? Please share your experiences with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"