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BACHMAN'S WARBLER (Vermivora bachmani) Bachman's warbler is the rarest native songbird in the United States. This tiny four inches long (10.2 cm) bird is on the verge of extinction and perhaps already gone. Critical wintering habitat in Cuba has beens severely reduced. It inhabits dense wooded swamps with thick undergrowth and is most likely to be found in low wet headwater swamps and Coastal Plain river swamps with deciduous trees including cypress, gum, and hickory. One of the last ones seen in the Southeast was in Long County, Georgia, in 1975. Reasons for decline include habitat loss as bottomland hardwood forests are converted to pine plantations. Scan from Audubon's Birds of America Plate 185 | |