Description: Blue-gray above, yellow below with black stripes on
sides. White eye ring, dark lores and eyeline. Faint wing bars.
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Song: Lively and distinctive, starts low-pitched and rises in
tempo, pitch, and volume. “Chip cip che-way-o.”
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Distribution: Very limited breeding range - almost exclusively in lower
Michigan peninsula. Needs large, dense stands of young jack pines with ground cover of
grasses, ferns, brambles.
Known to winter only in the Bahamas.
Migration records rare and require strict documentation.
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