• In this June 2013 photo released by the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, a blackpoll warbler sits on a limb in New Hampshire. A study to be published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters found that the tiny songbird that summers in the forests of northern North America has been tracked on a 1,700-mile, over-the-ocean journey from the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada to the islands of the Caribbean. | AP
    In this June 2013 photo released by the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology, a blackpoll warbler sits on a limb in New Hampshire. A study to be published Wednesday in the journal Biology Letters found that the tiny songbird that summers in the forests of northern North America has been tracked on a 1,700-mile, over-the-ocean journey from the Northeastern United States and eastern Canada to the islands of the Caribbean. | AP

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WASHINGTON – The blackpoll warbler accomplishes a mighty big feat for a such a little bird.

Scientists on Tuesday documented how this songbird that weighs half an ounce (12 grams) completes an arduous nonstop flight over the Atlantic Ocean from forests in New England and eastern Canada to Caribbean islands as it migrates each fall toward its South American wintering grounds.

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