Dendroica fusca

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Dendroica fusca - black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat

Blackburn, Blackburnian warbler

New World warbler, wood warbler - small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song

Dendroica, genus Dendroica - a genus of Parulidae

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The dominant bird species before fire, based on relative importance value (Table 2) were Blackburnian Warbler (Dendroica fusca), Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapillus), Red-eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus) and Bay-breasted Warbler (Dendroica castanea).

Thirty years of post-fire succession in a southern boreal forest bird community

Similarly, among forest nesting birds, Blackburnian warblers (Dendroica fusca) and northern parulas (Parula americana) occupy mature coniferous forests (Graber and Graber 1951; Peterjohn 1989), whereas cerulean warblers and scarlet tanagers (Piranga olivacea) require extensive tracts of mature hardwood forest with tall trees for nesting (Robbins and others 1992; DeGraaf and Rappole 1995).