This is Bird Note. It's incredibly challenging to spot a Connecticut warbler. It's not that the bird is

especially rare, or its range is especially narrow. It isn't restricted to rugged remote wildernesses.

This relatively big, slow-moving warbler just keeps a low profile, whether it's

nesting in the boreal forests, wintering in the forests of South America, or migrating between the two.

The best way to track down a Connecticut warbler is by listening for its loud and distinctive song.

But even singing birds on the breeding grounds can be tricky to spot.

Observers in the north woods of Minnesota regularly find themselves swatting black flies for an

hour or more before seeing so much as a brief glimpse of this bird as it struts across the forest floor.

When it does perch deep in a small spruce or tamaract to sing, the Connecticut warbler carefully

conceals itself before making a peep, and even the call itself makes it hard to pinpoint the bird.

It often sounds like the bird is calling from low in a tree when it's actually perched high in the crown. It takes more than a little luck

for intrepid birders to train their binoculars on this songbird.

For Bird note, I'm Michael Stein.

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