Prairie Warbler
Prairie Warbler is a bird of open scrubby forest or regenerating second-growth. It reaches its highest population densities in extensive pitch pine forests in the Northeast, but may also occur in powerline cuts, forest clearings, or even mangrove forest in Florida.
It winters primarily in the Caribbean, so its northward passage occurs primarily through Florida. In this respect the spring migration may resemble Blackpoll Warbler or American Redstart.
In the East, the northern limit of Prairie Warbler falls in southern Maine and central New Hampshire, and the species is quite rare once one reaches the true northern boreal forest in central and northern Maine. Despite his, the STEM model predicts the species occurring as far north as the Canadian border, despite a paucity of records from those regions. Although these predictions are at very low densities, we do hope that more data form the regions will compensate for this in two ways. First, it will further inform the model that effort-based complete checklists in tat region do not produce Prairie Warblers;
