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title: "Cerulean Warbler"
description: "Setophaga cerulea — Uccelli. The cerulean warbler (Setophaga cerulea) is a small songbird in the family Parulidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/cerulean-warbler
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cerulean Warbler

> Setophaga cerulea — Uccelli. The cerulean warbler (Setophaga cerulea) is a small songbird in the family Parulidae.

- Scientific name: *Setophaga cerulea*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 3286
- Wikidata: [Q25066647](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25066647)
- iNaturalist taxon: [145232](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/145232)

## Names

- en: Cerulean Warbler
- de: Pappelwaldsänger
- es: Chipe Celeste
- fr: Paruline azurée
- pt: Mariquita-azul
- pl: Lasówka niebieska

## Countries with the most observations

US (2439), CA (411), CO (100), EC (32), MX (29), CR (18), HN (11), PA (10), NI (8), VE (4), TT (3)

## Summary

The cerulean warbler (Setophaga cerulea) is a small songbird in the family Parulidae. It is a long-distance migrant, breeding in eastern North American hardwood forests and wintering on the Eastern slope of the Andes in South America during non-breeding season, preferring subtropical forests.
It displays strong sexual dichromatism. Adult males have cerulean blue and white upperparts, with a black necklace across the breast and black streaks on the back and flanks. Females and immature birds have bluish-green upperparts, a pale stripe over the eye, no streaking, and are yellow below. All have two white wing bars and…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/88036126

## Machine access

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