Setophaga tigrina
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The Cape May warbler (Setophaga tigrina) is a species of New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America. Its breeding range spans all but the westernmost parts of southern Canada, the Great Lakes region, and New England. It is migratory, wintering in the West Indies. This species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, with two records in Britain as of October 2013. The English name refers to Cape May, New Jersey, where George Ord collected the specimen that was later described by Alexander Wilson.
The Cape May warbler was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it in the genus Motacilla and coined the binomial name Motacilla tigrina. The specific epithet is from Latin tigrinus meaning "tigrine" or "barred or striped like a tiger". Gmelin based his account on "The yellow spotted fly-catcher" that had been described by the English naturalist George Edwards in 1758, and "Le figuier brun de Canada" that had been described by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The Cape May warbler is now one of more than 30 species placed in the genus... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santo Domingo | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 2 | Managua | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | |
| 3 | Miami | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Havana | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 5 | Chicago | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Toronto | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 7 | Orlando | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Baltimore | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | New York City | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Montreal | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph Perkins II Wildlife Center and Woods Garden | 🇺🇸 United States |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Cape May Warbler sighting in Los Haitises National Park on a given day, based on 197 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 29th most-seen of the 106 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and February
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Cape May Warbler in Los Haitises National Park on a given day, against about 10% in May, July and November, the lowest months. Those are among Los Haitises National Park's driest months, with about 50 mm of rain a month against 170 mm in May.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cape May 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.
3rd of 30
Of the 30 parks where we can rate Cape May Warbler sightings, Los Haitises National Park ranks 3rd at about 30%. The best odds are in Point Pelee National Park (Canada, about 40%) and Ciénaga de Zapata (Cuba, about 40%).
Same genus: Setophaga
The closest relatives of the Cape May Warbler that you can see in Los Haitises National Park (genus Setophaga, Setophaga Warblers) are American Redstart (about 40%), Northern Parula (about 30%) and Yellow Warbler (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cape May Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Los Haitises National Park (197 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.
