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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:

"The Magnolia Warbler is not only ... the most beautiful of wood warblers, ... it seems to be conscious of its beauty and anxious to display it? (Bent 1953). In Prince Albert National Park, it sings from a low perch in windthrow gaps in old forest filled with small white spruce growing closely together (Enid Cumming). Magnolia Warblers breed in northern coniferous forest from eastern British Columbia across Canada and in the northeastern US; they winter mostly in southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama.

This warbler is strongly associated with mature mixedwood or coniferous forests (Smith 1996) and with clearings caused by fallen trees (Cumming). During migration, "look for Magnolias in the dense shrubbery of city parks, backyards and farmyards, where one or two birds may join roving bands of other warbler species? (ibid.).

The Magnolia Warbler is a fairly common summer resident of the mixed and coniferous forests of the northern and southern boreal regions and a fairly common transient in all regions south of the breeding range except for the extreme southwest (Smith 1996).

Original text by Brenda Schmidt. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky

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

LeeAnn M. Latremouille

Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Magnolia 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=MAWA&lang=en [14 Nov 2025]