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Bay-breasted Warbler

 

A large warbler of the northern spruce forests, the Bay-breasted Warbler benefits from spruce budworm outbreaks when the caterpillars provide abundant food. Spraying to control the destructive outbreaks may have reduced populations of this warbler.

 

Photo courtesy of Steve Nanz 2025
Text courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2025