Northern Waterthrush

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Northern Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush by LA Fuertes
Northern Waterthrush by LA Fuertes
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus: Seiurus
Species: S. noveboracensis
Binomial name
Seiurus noveboracensis
(Gmelin, 1789)

The Northern Waterthrush (Seiurus noveboracensis) is one of the larger of the New World warblers. It breeds in the northern part of North America (in Canada, and the northern United States, including Alaska) and is migratory, wintering in Central America, the West Indies, and Florida. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

The Northern Waterthrush is 13.5 cm long, weighs 15 g, and has a plain brown back, and white underparts streaked with black. There is a strong white supercilium, and the legs are pink. All plumages are similar, but young birds have buff underparts rather than white.

The only confusion species is the closely-related Louisiana Waterthrush (Seiurus motacilla), which has buff flanks and undertail and bright pink legs. The Louisiana Waterthrush also tends to have a more unstreaked, white throat.

Both waterthrush species walk rather than hop, and seem to teeter, bobbing their rear ends as they move along.

The breeding habitat is wet woodlands near standing water. Northern Waterthrushes nest in a stump or among tree roots, laying three to six eggs (cream- or buff-colored, with brown and gray spots) in a cup nest of leaves, bark strips, and rootlets.

They are terrestrial feeders, eating insects, mollusks, and crustaceans among the leaf litter. Their song is a loud swee swee chit chit weedleoo; their call is a hard chink.

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  • Eaton, S. W. 1995. Northern Waterthrush (Seiurus noveboracensis). In The Birds of North America, No. 182 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C.

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  • Craig RJ. Ph.D. (1981). COMPARATIVE ECOLOGY OF THE LOUISIANA AND NORTHERN WATERTHRUSHES. The University of Connecticut, United States -- Connecticut.
  • Gaudette MT. Ph.D. (1998). Modeling wetland songbird community integrity in central Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania State University, United States -- Pennsylvania.
  • Powell KG. M.Sc. (2005). Songbird movement, relative abundance, and species composition in natural and managed forest landscapes in western Newfoundland. Acadia University (Canada), Canada.
  • Ramos Olmos MA. Ph.D. (1983). SEASONAL MOVEMENTS OF BIRD POPULATIONS AT A NEOTROPICAL STUDY SITE IN SOUTHERN VERACRUZ, MEXICO. University of Minnesota, United States -- Minnesota.

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