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Order: Passeriformes Family: Parulidae Chick Type: Altricial Orange-crowned Warblers breeds in Alaska, most of Canada and western US. They winter in the southern states from North Carolina to California and also into Central America. Orange-crowns are one of 17 or so wood-warblers that has winter ranges in the US. They live in woodlands & with a good understory, brushlands, and chaparral. Winter habitat are much the same as their breeding habitat. Orange-crowns are often seen along edge of woodlots, hopping about in the vines and shrubs. Diet includes insects and spiders, but also include seeds and fruit. Orange-crowns, like Yellow-rumped Warblers, will visit bird feeders, especially in winter months. Like many members of its genus, Vermivora, Orange-crowned Warblers are ground nesters. Cup style nests are either built on the ground or very close to it. Average clutch sizes around 3 to 6 are typical. Eggs are incubated for around than two weeks and the chicks will fledge after 14 days. There are four subspecies of Orange-crowned Warblers: V. c. celata, V.c. orestera, V.c. lutescens and V.c. sordida. Celata is found in Alaska and most of Canada, Orestera range in the Great Plains, Lutescens along the Pacific coast and Sordida in the Channel Islands of the coast of southern California. Orange-crowned Warblers resemble the closely related Tennessee Warbler, but Orange-crowns have streaks that do down on their breasts.
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