ChestnutSided

Chestnut-Sided Warbler Dendroica pensilvania

Chestnut-Sided Warbler Dendroica pensilvania

Unlike many wood warblers that are hidden within the high canopy of forests, the Chestnut-sided warbler prefers the shrubbery and scraggly second growth deciduous and edge habitat. Breeds mainly in the northeast U.S. and eastern Canada as it nests in low dense shrubs or tangles of blackberry, rhododendron, and deciduous saplings such as maple or elder.

They are more common now than they were during the forest clearing of the 1800’s. More recent decades are showing steady decline.