Ovenbird - A Bird You Should Know

The Ovenbird is an interesting warbler that you should know. Although not rare - they are more commonly heard and not seen in the dense forest. Filmed with Campark T180/TC08 Trail Camera available at: https://shrsl.com/3upqb using SanDisk 128GB Extreme microSD at: https://amzn.to/3FSxxpV Commission may be Earned through affiliate links.
I have documented them before scratching the leaf litter on the forest floor for invertebrates such as beetles and their larvae, ants, caterpillars, flies, and other insects.
The ovenbird walks in an exaggerated fashion as it looks for food on the ground - it doesn't hop like most songbirds.
Other Ovenbird videos from the Backyard:
Ovenbird Warbler Mini-Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4U1tjDjx4M
Ovenbirds - The Walking Warblers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9JR9WoWEM

This is the first time one has made an extended visit to the mountain spring deep in the forests of the Great Smoky Mountains. And clearly they take their hygiene seriously.

The Ovenbird looks so much like a thrush that John James Audubon first called it the “Golden Crowned Thrush” in Birds of America.
They are fascinating birds and while some call them plain I think they are quite stunning and unique warblers. I love their Golden Crown

It gets the name Ovenbird because of its nesting habit as noted by Audubon -
The nest is so like an oven, that the children in many places call this species the "Oven Bird." I have found it always on the ground, sometimes among the roots of a tall tree, sometimes by the side of a fallen trunk, and again at the foot of some slender sapling. It is sunk in the ground among dry leaves or decayed moss, and is neatly formed of grasses, both inside and out, arched over with a thick mass of the same material, covered by leaves, twigs, and such grasses as are found in the area. A small opening is left on one side, just sufficient to admit the owner. In this snug tenement the female deposits from four to six eggs, which are white, irregularly spotted with reddish-brown near the larger end.

So keep your eye out for this unusual warbler on a walk in the dense forest from the mid Atlantic coast through the Midwest and upper plains on up into Canada in the summer breeding season.
Song of the Ovenbird from xeno-canto Creative Commons license:
https://xeno-canto.org/77882
Thumbnail picture by Rhododendrites via Creative Commons License: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ovenbird_(90497).jpg original photo was cropped.
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