Bachman's Warbler

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Bachman's Warbler | status = Conservation status: Extinct{{#if:{{{when|}}}| (1961) }} | image = Bachman.jpg | image_width = 260px | image_caption = Audubon lithograph | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Passeriformes | familia = Parulidae | genus = Vermivora | species = V. bachmanii | binomial = Vermivora bachmanii | binomial_authority = Audubon, 1833 }}

Bachman's Warbler (Vermivora bachmanii) was a small passerine bird that inhabited the swamps and lowland forests of the southeast United States. This warbler was a migrant, wintering in Cuba.

Bachman's Warbler is presumed extinct, and was most likely never common. The last confirmed sightings were in 1961 in South Carolina. Habitat destruction was probably the main cause of its disappearance.

This bird was discovered in 1832 by the Reverend John Bachman, who presented study skins and descriptions to his friend and collaborator, John James Audubon. Audubon never saw the bird alive but named it in honor of Bachman.

Audubon's folio renderings of a male and female Bachman's Warbler (see right) were painted on top of an illustration of the Franklinia tree first painted by Maria Martin, Bachman's sister-in-law and one of the country's first female natural history illustrators.Template:Commons