The blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata) is a remarkable bird. In the autumn the bird leaves its habitat in Canada or New England in the U.S. and makes a trip down south. In around three days the ...

The blackpoll warbler can fly more than 1,500 miles nonstop ... with these geolocators in the autumn. In the spring, they recovered five of them, says study co-author Chris Rimmer, a scientist ...

Scientists have figured out how a tiny songbird called the blackpoll warbler mysteriously vanishes from most of Canada each fall. It turns out that when the bird disappears from human sight ...

For the blackpoll warbler, such a feat is called their fall migration. They absorb organs they don't need for their flight, like their intestines. —Ecologist Bill DeLuca Ecologists affixed ...

The blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata), a songbird that only weighs ... Blackpolls, by contrast, had never been observed in the southeastern United States in the autumn; they have instead landed on ...

A blackpoll warbler, photographed in Holyoke's Heritage State Park during the 2013 fall migration. (Greg Saulmon / The Republican ) AMHERST — "I just flew in from Canada, and boy are my arms tired ...

This warbler migration is a remarkable feat of the natural world, with some species traveling many thousands of miles. The blackpoll warbler, for example, is a long-range migrating bird that can ...

When Arctic food dwindles in autumn, they return to the replenished tropics. These journeys are risky but better than the alternative. Blackpoll warblers winter in Venezuela, then fly north in spring ...

Scientists have long wondered how the Blackpoll warbler (Setophaga striata), a songbird that weighs a mere 12g – about 3 teaspoons of sugar – complete their arduous non-stop flight over the ...

A quick glance might mistake this black and white bird for a chickadee, but instead it’s a blackpoll warbler, traveling faster and farther than almost all other migratory birds. To hear a ...