Palm Warbler, rufous cap
Setophaga palmarum
Palm Warbler · Everglades National Park · 6 February 2026
A Palm Warbler in the Everglades in February, in the winter home of the whole species. Palm Warblers breed in the bogs of Canada, where there is not a palm for a thousand miles, and winter in Florida and the Caribbean, feeding on the ground and in low scrub.
The chestnut cap gives the species its most reliable field mark in any plumage, worn dull here rather than sharp as it would be in spring. The near-constant tail-bobbing that identifies a Palm Warbler at a distance doesn't survive into a still frame; only the raised tail itself does. It is named for the palms of Hispaniola, where the first specimen was collected.
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