Quiz: Palm Warbler

Which of these four habitats would you not find a Palm Warbler:

1. Palm Trees
2. Bogs
3. Coastal Marshes
4. Hardwoods


Bog - Kouchibouguac National Park, Canada


Marshes - Magee Marsh, Ohio


Hardwood - Natchez Trace State Park, Tennessee

[Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum) A bird of thickets and open areas, usually seen low or on the ground. Many Palm Warblers spend the winter in the southeastern US, especially in Florida, where they may be seen near palm groves but not up in the palms themselves.

They breed in sphagnum bogs with scattered cedar, tamarack, and spruce trees. The western race also breeds in dry pine barrens of boreal forests with ground cover of blueberry, bearberry, and sweet fern. In migration, they frequent old hedgerows, edges of streams and ponds, overgrown fields, and open pastures.]

Answer: # 1. You would not find a Palm Warbler in a Palm Tree! Did you get it right?