Cape May Warbler

Call and song

• Recording 1

  Recording: Jonathon Jongsma · Wikimedia · CC-BY-SA 3.0 (licence)

• Recording 2

  Recording: William W. H. Gunn; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

• Recording 3

  Recording: Gregory Budney; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

About the Cape May Warbler

Small warbler with sharp bill that is very slightly downcurved. Plumages variable. Bright adult males are yellow below with black streaks, orange cheek patch, and white patch on wing. Dullest immature females are entirely gray with indistinct streaking below, usually with a hint of paler neck sides and greenish edges to wing feathers. Breeds in boreal forest of far northern U.S. and Canada. Winters in the Caribbean and Central America. Even in migration, shows a heavy preference for spruce trees.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 47 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Aruba
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Brazil
• Canada
• Caribbean Netherlands
• Cayman Islands
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Curaçao
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Guadeloupe
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• High Seas
• Honduras
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Jamaica
• Martinique
• Mexico
• Montserrat
• Nicaragua
• Norway
• Panama
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Martin (French part)
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Sint Maarten
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Venezuela
• Virgin Islands (British)
• Virgin Islands (U.S.)