American Woodcock Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Ovenbird Plump bird with a long bill, no neck, Deep blue on top with black mask Bright yellow face, olive head and Large warbler, olive-green above, white and short legs; mottled cryptic and throat; white patch on wing back; black throat drips down sides below, dark streaked spots on lower throat, chest, and sides, noticeable coloration onto white belly; two white wing- eye ring, top of head is orange-brown bars bordered with black stripes Canada Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Eastern Wood-Pewee Scarlet Tanager Bright yellow throat and belly with Top of head is yellow, black Slim, small headed, and grayish-olive Slim, bright red bird with jet black necklace of black stripes; gray back; moustache stripe and chestnut sides above with dull, white bars on wings wings and tail complete white eye-ring following curve of wings; tail held tilted above tips of wings SONG A nasal beeping peent heard SONG A thick & buzzy I’m-so-la-zeee SONG To attract females, males sing SONG A loud and distinct staccato mostly at dusk with endnote rising up zee-zee-zee-zoo-zee; to defend song pizza, pizza, pizza (or teacher, territorial boundaries zoo-zee-zoo- teacher, teacher) zoo-zee FOOD Mostly insects and earthworms on forest floor and in soil FOOD Insects, especially moth and FOOD Adult beetles and larvae, ants, butterfly larvae caterpillars, flies, and other insects FOOD Insects found on forest floor BEHAVIOR During courtship, males fly high in sky, making high-pitched Prefers nesting in dense twittering sounds with their wings BEHAVIOR BEHAVIOR Prefers large forest tracts BEHAVIOR Builds nest of leaves on understory of hobblebush or other (>250 ac) with tall trees, closed forest floor with side opening that small shrubs canopy, and softwood patches, looks like an oven especially hemlocks HABITAT FEATURE Small clearings for courtship displays, and dense, shorter HABITAT FEATURE Mature forest, shrubs and young trees for feeding, HABITAT FEATURE Dense shrubbery abundant leaf litter for nesting and nesting, raising young in forests HABITAT FEATURE Hemlock trees feeding Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height SONG Often has soft introductory SONG Fast Please-please-pleased-to- SONG Sorrowful pee-ahh-weee SONG Like a robin but more hoarse chips, then I’m-IN-here, but-you- meetcha with accented ending and slurred; call an abrupt chick-burr CAN’T-SEEME Insects, primarily flying insects Caterpillars and fly larvae; FOOD FOOD Mainly insects, some fruit some berries FOOD FOOD Flying insects and spiders BEHAVIOR Weave their nests out BEHAVIOR Hops rapidly between of grass and cover the outside with BEHAVIOR Scarlet tanagers can be BEHAVIOR Commonly found in small branches when feeding, with tail lichen so that the nest resembles a hard to find as they sing high in the gaps in moist woods near wet areas cocked, showing white feathers knot on the tree branch on which it forest canopy or tip-ups and downed logs under tail sits; catches insects in the air by flying out from perch and then back again HABITAT FEATURE Gaps in mature HABITAT FEATURE Forest interior, tall HABITAT FEATURE Wet areas with forest with smaller, younger trees, trees with full coverage, especially small forest gaps shrubs, and grasses HABITAT FEATURE Small gaps in forest oaks Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height Mourning Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Northern Parula Olive-sided Flycatcher Small songbird with a chestnut cap, Small warbler, mainly blue-gray Olive above and bright yellow below throat, and sides, blackish face with above with two noticeable white Large-billed, heavy-headed, deep with a gray hood, no eye ring, and a noticeable cream-colored patch on bars on wings, a partial white eye- olive-brown, with darker sides, black patch below throat back and side of neck, gray back with ring, light greenish-yellow triangular separated by a white patch down the black stripes, and two broad, white patch on back, yellow throat and center of the chest; tail wide with bars on wings chest, white belly notch at the end Blackburnian Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-backed Woodpecker Boreal Chickadee Black and white with vivid orange Black mask, white eyebrow stripe, Robin-sized woodpecker with solid Small, brown back, black bib, top throat, crown patch, and eyebrow, noticeable black band across the black back, black and white bars on of head is brown, white cheeks and large white patch on wing, boldly upper chest, heavy black streaks sides, and white chest; top of the whitish belly, gray wings, reddish- striped back on the sides, wide white panels on male’s head is yellow brown sides wings, black back, and yellow rump SONG Loud, ringing, musical song SONG A high, thin teesi-teesi-teesi- SONG Song a series of one or more SONG A loud, forceful quick, THREE teedle-teedle, turtle-turtle, the last teesi, without change in pitch or rising buzzy notes dropping abruptly beers, often sung from high perch or pair of notes lower volume at the end, buzzzzz-zip or bz-bz-bz-zip large tree FOOD Mostly insects and spiders, FOOD Insects, spiders, beetles, usually FOOD Insects and spiders sometimes berries and seeds FOOD Flying insects found low in trees and shrubs BEHAVIOR Hops quickly through BEHAVIOR Feeds extensively on branches searching for insects and BEHAVIOR Sits on prominent perch— BEHAVIOR Nests on or near ground in spruce budworm caterpillars during spiders on leaves and branch tips; nest, often top of snag or dead branch— dense ferns or grasses cyclic outbreaks; population may feed, and sing from high in treetops before and after flying off to catch an expand during outbreaks insect in the air HABITAT FEATURE Dense trees and HABITAT FEATURE Moist, tall, older shrubs in younger forest or mature HABITAT FEATURE Prefers older softwood forest with old man’s beard HABITAT FEATURE Dead trees and forest gap stands of dense conifers lichen for making hanging nests gaps in forest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height SONG Thin but strong, increasing in speed and rising to the limit of SONG Song short and weak whistled SONG Sharp, fast, harsh kyik and a SONG A husky, buzzy zick-a-zee-zee hearing, sleet-sleet-sleet-sleet- weta, weta, WETEEA scolding rattle sleetee-sleeeee Insects, spiders, and a large Beetle larvae that live under Seeds, berries, and a variety of Insects, often spiders, beetles, FOOD FOOD FOOD FOOD amount of caterpillars, especially loose bark insects and moth larvae spruce budworm when available BEHAVIOR Feeds, nests and sings from topmost part of tall trees BEHAVIOR Searches for beetle larvae BEHAVIOR Stores insect larvae and (especially tallest trees that emerge BEHAVIOR Feeds on insects found on in softwood stands with lots of dead spruce seeds for later use, probably above the main canopy). Dazzling the underside of needles or dying conifers; excavates cavities during winter coloration when sun shines on head for nest and neck HABITAT FEATURE Young, dense HABITAT FEATURE Large dead or Dead trees; cavities Tall trees, HABITAT FEATURE HABITAT FEATURE conifers beneath the forest canopy dying trees for nesting and feeding used for nesting especially large hemlocks Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest Layer bird is Typical nest HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height HABITAT typically seen type/height Veery Northern Flicker Wood Thrush Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Large brownish woodpecker with dark Tawny-brown above, weakly spotted bars and spots on back, whitish chest Brown back, heavily spotted on white Black and white pattern on back; on breast, least spotted of all the with black spots and a black crescent chest; large thrush a little smaller yellowish across belly; red forehead thrushes mark on upper chest, white rump, red than an American Robin and throat Vertical white stripe on side patch on back of neck, yellow wing distinguishes it from other woodpeckers linings, black “mustache” Northern Hardwood Mixedwood Northern Softwood Oak-Pine Mix Flute-like and ghostly; like SONG A flute-likeee-oh-layyy, ending SONG Drum burst of 5 rapid taps SONG A loud, repeated flicka-flicka- a ball spiraling down a tube; call a SONG in a sound like shattering glass followed by gradual slowing double flicka, also a loud peough call forceful veer! taps; call a QUEEah FOOD Mostly soil insects; some fruits FOOD Sap from woody plant species, FOOD Insects, spiders, centipedes, pill FOOD Ants and other invertebrates on insects, bark, fruits, and seeds; drills bugs, and fruit the ground near forest edges BEHAVIOR Thrushes have a and maintains sap wells along trunks complicated syrinx (voice box) that allows them to sing two notes at the BEHAVIOR Often found near streams same time and harmonize with their BEHAVIOR Makes two kinds of holes and beaver wetlands; usually hops BEHAVIOR Excavates nest in large in trees