Summary

  • Status in VT: Increased by 2% (172 to 176 blocks). Greatest increase in the Champlain Valley.
  • Data from other research: BBS data indicate a significant decrease in abundance (-1.8% per year), though still abundant in VT.
  • Conservation status: State rank S5B; SSC; SGCN
  • Other atlases: NY: 10%; PA: 35%; ON: increase in all physiographic regions
  • VT’s role in North American range: VT is within the core of the range.
  • Causes of change since first Atlas:Distribution stable, decrease in abundance potentially due to:  loss of successional habitats due to conversion to non-forested uses; reductions in active forest management.
  • Management/Monitoring recommendations: Maintain seedling/sapling forest habitat.

Population Trends

Chestnut-sided Warbler graph

First Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (1976-1981)

Species Account

Second Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (2003 – 2007)

Chestnut-sided Warbler Map 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler Table 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler Table 2

Change in Distribution

mapkey Chestnut-sided Warbler Map 2 Chestnut-sided Warbler Table 3

Links

Vermont eBird

Encyclopedia of Life

All About Birds