Setophaga fusca
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Blackburnian warbler (Setophaga fusca) is a small New World warbler. They breed in eastern North America, from southern Canada, westwards to the southern Canadian Prairies, the Great Lakes region and New England, to North Carolina. They are migratory, wintering in southern Central America and South America, and are very rare vagrants to western Europe. The common name honors the English botanist Anna Blackburne.
The Blackburnian warbler was formally described in 1776 by the German zoologist Philipp Statius Müller under the binomial name Motacilla fusca. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "dusky", "black" or "brown". Müller based his account on a handcoloured plate of the "Figuier étranger" that had been engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet to accompany the Comte de Buffon's multivolume work Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The type location is French Guiana. The Blackburnian warbler is now placed in the genus Setophaga that was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1827. The genus name Setophaga combines the Ancient Greek σης/sēs, σητος/sētos meaning "moth" with -φαγος/-phagos meaning "-eating". The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised... Wikipedia →
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ralph Perkins II Wildlife Center and Woods Garden | 🇺🇸 United States |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Blackburnian Warbler sighting in Point Pelee National Park on a given day, based on 6,329 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 54th most-seen of the 278 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and August
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Blackburnian Warbler in Point Pelee National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–July and October–April, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blackburnian 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.
2nd of 55
Of the 55 parks where we can rate Blackburnian Warbler sightings, Point Pelee National Park ranks 2nd at about 40%. The best odds are in Farallones de Cali National Natural Park (Colombia, about 50%). All parks ranked.
Same genus: Setophaga
The closest relatives of the Blackburnian Warbler that you can see in Point Pelee National Park (genus Setophaga, Setophaga Warblers) are Yellow Warbler (about 70%), Northern Yellow Warbler (about 60%) and Yellow-rumped Warbler (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blackburnian Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Point Pelee National Park (6,329 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.
