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title: "Blackburnian Warbler"
description: "Setophaga fusca — Birds. The Blackburnian warbler (Setophaga fusca) is a small New World warbler."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/blackburnian-warbler
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blackburnian Warbler

> Setophaga fusca — Birds. The Blackburnian warbler (Setophaga fusca) is a small New World warbler.

- Scientific name: *Setophaga fusca*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 20056
- Wikidata: [Q27075919](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27075919)
- iNaturalist taxon: [145237](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/145237)

## Names

- en: Blackburnian Warbler
- de: Fichtenwaldsänger
- es: Chipe garganta naranja
- fr: Paruline à gorge orangée
- pt: Mariquita-papo-de-fogo
- pl: Lasówka rudogardła

## Countries with the most observations

US (9261), CA (5079), CO (2343), EC (478), MX (461), CR (307), PA (199), HN (104), NI (76), PE (36), GT (31), VE (31)

## Summary

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.

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

## Photo

![Blackburnian Warbler](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blackburnian-warbler/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/137866305

## Machine access

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