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The Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

These birds have an olive back with blue-grey wings and tail, yellow underparts, a relatively long pointed bill and black legs. Adult males have a bright orange-yellow head; females and immature birds are duller in colour and have a yellow head.

Their breeding habitat is hardwood swamps in southern Canada and the eastern United States. This bird nests in a cavity, sometimes using old Downy Woodpecker nests. The male often builds several incomplete unused nests in his territory; the female builds the real nest.

These birds migrateLong-distance land bird migration Many species of land birds migrate very long distances, the most common pattern being for birds to breed in the temperate or arctic northern hemisphere and winter in warmer regions, often in the tropics or the southern he to the West Indies, Central AmericaCentral America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. Some geographers classify Central America as a large isthmus, and in this geographic sense it sometimes in and northern South AmericaSouth America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. South America is situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It became attached to North America only recently, geologically speaking, wi.

They forage actively in low foliage in wet areas; these birds mainly eat insects and snails.

The song of this bird is a loud repeated tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet.

These birds are declining in numbers due to loss of habitat. They are also frequently victimized by the Brown-headed CowbirdThe Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater is a small icterid. Adults have a short finch-like bill and dark eyes. The adult male is mainly irridescent black with a brown head. The adult female is grey with a pale throat and fine streaking on the underparts..

This bird was named after officials in the Roman Catholic ChurchThe Roman Catholic Church (often called simply the Catholic Church, but see Catholicism for other meanings of the term "Catholic Church") is a worldwide body of Christians in full communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, and subscribing to the beliefs known as the protonotarii, who wore golden robes.