Prairie Warbler

Prairie Warbler
Sylvia discolor [now Setophaga discolor]
Folio edition, plate 14

“In Louisiana I found this bird amongst our cotton fields, where it easily procures the small insects and flies of which its food is entirely composed. . . . It is one of the first birds that arrives in spring in Louisiana, and one of the first to depart, being rarely found after the first week of September.”

John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography, or An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America (Edinburgh: A. Black [et al.], 1831), p. 76.

View bird in National Audubon Society Guide to North American Birds.