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Blackburnian Warbler banded at Riveredge Nature Center on May 16,
2000. The bird now wears a USFWS aluminun band numbered 2090-75970
on it's leg. This is an adult male in breeding plumage. His weight
was 10.5 grams about 0.4 ounces. (Two of these birds weight less
than a business letter mailed with a $0.34 stamp!) Blackburnian
Warbler's winter in southern Central America and in South America,
from Colombia, Venezuela and northern Brazil south in the Andes
to central Bolivia. In the fall they follow the coast of the Gulf
of Mexico or fly across the Gulf to Yucatan. In Spring, while heading
north, most cross the Gulf of Mexico.
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Last Update: 15April2002.
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