2010 Nesting Season - Biodiversity Centre for Wildlife Studies

Family Bombycillidae - Waxwings (72): Cedar
Waxwing - 72.
Family Parulidae - Wood-Warblers (158):
Orange-crowned Warbler - 20, Nashville
Warbler - 6, Yellow Warbler - 62 (Figure 96 a
and b), Magnolia Warbler - 4, Yellow-rumped
Warbler - 17, Black-throated Gray Warbler - 6,
Townsend’s Warbler - 3, American Redstart -
12, Northern Waterthrush - 2, MacGillivray’s
Warbler - 4, Common Yellowthroat - 19, Wilson’s
Warbler - 2, and Canada Warbler - 1.
Family Thraupidae - Tanagers (9): Western
Tanager - 9.
Family Emberizidae - Towhees, Sparrows,
Longspurs, and Allies (308): Spotted Towhee
– 45 (Figure 97 a and b), Chipping Sparrow -
43, Clay-colored Sparrow - 10, Vesper Sparrow
- 42, Lark Sparrow - 6, Savannah Sparrow - 15,
Fox Sparrow - 2, Song Sparrow - 32, Lincoln’s
Sparrow - 11, White-throated Sparrow - 4,
White-crowned Sparrow - 15, and Dark-eyed
Junco - 83.
Figure 96. Yellow Warbler nest (a) in a small
soopolallie shrub (near centre) on 22 June
2010 and with eggs and nestlings (b) on 24
June. Feller’s Heights, BC. (Photos by Mark
Phinney).
Figure 97. This adult Spotted Towhee, with
food in its bill (a) suggests breeding, which was
confirmed when it fed a new fledgling hidden in
woodland undergrowth (b). Vancouver, BC. 15
June 2010 (Photos by Kevin Atkins).
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