The palm warbler (Setophaga palmarum) was named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804) a German naturalist who found it on Hispaniola, a Caribbean island with a lot of palm trees. But in fact, the bird spends most of its time on the ground. It breeds in bogs in Canada and the Adirondacks of upstate New York and winters primarily in the southeastern and Gulf Coast regions of the United States and the Caribbean.
