Cardellina canadensis
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In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The Canada warbler (Cardellina canadensis) is a small boreal songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae). It summers in Canada and northeastern United States and winters in northern South America. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Canada warbler in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Canada. He used the French name Le gobe-mouche cendré de Canada and the Latin name Muscicapa Canadensis Cinerea. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the Canada warbler. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Muscicapa canadensis, and cited Brisson's work. The species is now placed in the genus Cardellina that was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850. The species is monotypic.
The Canada warbler is sometimes called the "necklaced warbler... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicago | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Bogota | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | New York City | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 5 | Minneapolis [Saint Paul] | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Houston | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 8 | Austin | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | Baltimore | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Toronto | 🇨🇦 Canada |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Canada Warbler sighting in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, based on 376 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 262nd most-seen of the 503 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Canada Warbler in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–August and November–March, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Canada Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
21st of 37
Of the 37 parks where we can rate Canada Warbler sightings, Arenal Volcano National Park ranks 21st at under 5%. The best odds are in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (Colombia, about 30%), Podocarpus National Park (Ecuador, about 20%) and Riding Mountain National Park (Canada, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Canada Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Arenal Volcano National Park (376 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
