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title: "Black-throated Blue Warbler"
description: "Setophaga caerulescens — Birds. The black-throated blue warbler (Setophaga caerulescens) is a small passerine bird of the New World warbler family."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/black-throated-blue-warbler
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black-throated Blue Warbler

> Setophaga caerulescens — Birds. The black-throated blue warbler (Setophaga caerulescens) is a small passerine bird of the New World warbler family.

- Scientific name: *Setophaga caerulescens*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 17558
- Wikidata: [Q27075926](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075926)
- iNaturalist taxon: [199916](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/199916)

## Names

- en: Black-throated Blue Warbler
- de: Blaurückenwaldsänger
- es: Chipe azulnegro
- fr: Paruline bleue
- pt: Mariquita-azul-de-garganta-preta
- pl: Lasówka granatowa

## Countries with the most observations

US (11724), CA (3527), CU (256), JM (141), MX (103), DO (101), BS (49), PR (36), HT (28), KY (26), PT (10), BM (9)

## Summary

The black-throated blue warbler (Setophaga caerulescens) is a small passerine bird of the New World warbler family. Its breeding ranges are located in the interior of deciduous and mixed coniferous forests in eastern North America. Over the cooler months, it migrates to islands in the Caribbean and Central America. It is very rarely found in western Europe, where it is considered to be a non-indigenous species. The black-throated blue warbler is sexually dimorphic; the adult male has a black face and cheeks, deep blue upperparts and white underparts, while the adult female is olive-brown above and light yellow below…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-throated_blue_warbler

## Photo

![Black-throated Blue Warbler](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-throated-blue-warbler/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88036145

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-throated-blue-warbler?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).