A bird so dazzling that it's been called a flying piece of the sky. The number of Cerulean Warblers fell by 70 percent from 1966 to 1996. In the Appalachian mountains, long a breeding stronghold, large stands of prime habitat have been lost -- fragmented, heavily logged, converted to agriculture or destroyed.
In 2005, a 540-acre Cerulean Warbler Reserve was created in Colombia, providing a protected habitat for migratory birds from North America as well as local threatened species.
Henry David Thoreau called the Cerulean Warbler's song ethereal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sps_wdUUjlQ
Beautiful, Susan! You really captured an alive look, and I can almost feel how soft those blue breast feathers are!
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