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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:

Blackburnian Warblers feed high in the canopy, usually on the outer twigs in both coniferous and deciduous trees (Cumming 2004, Morse 2004). They have a relatively restricted range, barely reaching central Alberta in the west and Newfoundland in the east, extending south in the Appalachians to Tennessee. They winter in northern South America and down the Andes through Peru.

In Saskatchewan, Blackburnian Warblers are most often found in mature boreal mixedwood forest that is at least 80 years old and 18 m tall (Cumming 2004). In the Duck Mountain-Porcupine Hills area and in western Manitoba, however, they can also be fairly common in hardwood old-growth forests of balsam poplar and white birch, and on rare occasions within pure bur oak stands (Steve Van Wilgenburg).

A fairly common bird of the mature mixed wood and coniferous of the Southern Boreal and the adjacent Lower Churchill region of the Northern Boreal (Smith 1996). As migrants they are rare in southern Saskatchewan, presumably following the edge of boreal forest through Manitoba (Smith 1996).

Original text by Enid E. Cumming. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky

Read more about the Blackburnian Warbler in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.

LeeAnn M. Latremouille

Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Blackburnian Warbler in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=BLBW&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]