Plumbeous Warbler

The plumbeous warbler is 12 to 14 cm (4.7 to 5.5 in) long and weighs 8.4 to 11.3 g (0.30 to 0.40 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a mostly gray head with a white supercilium that is broken over the eye and a white arc below the eye. Their upperparts are gray. Their wings are mostly gray with wide white tips on the greater and median coverts that show as two white wing bars. Their tail is mostly gray with a whitish underside and white tips on the outer two pairs of feathers. Their underparts are mostly whitish with grayer flanks. They have a dark iris, a grayish black maxilla, a dark horn mandible, and dusky legs and feet. Immature birds have buffy white facial markings, grayish olive upperparts, buffy wing bars, and buffy white underparts.

The plumbeous warbler is endemic to the Lesser Antilles where it is restricted to Guadeloupe, its two dependencies Marie-Galante and Îles des Saintes, and Dominica. It inhabits humid montane forest, elfin forest, rainforest, low-elevation scrubby forest, and mangroves. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 900 m (3,000 ft).

The plumbeous warbler feeds primarily on insects and also includes small amounts of berries in its diet. It forages mostly in the understory, gleaning prey from foliage and branches.

The plumbeous warbler's genus Setophaga means "moth eater" in Greek. The specific epithet plumbea is Latin and means "lead-colored".