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A couple of weeks ago, Matt Kaiser, from the brand team at The Times, shared a small personal victory in the Slack channel: “After 19 unsuccessful attempts, in four states over three years, I finally got a good look at my arch nemesis, the hooded warbler!”

Last April, Prum and I drove 20 miles east of New Haven to Hammonasset Beach State Park, a 900-acre patchwork of shoreline, marsh, woodland and meadow on Long Island Sound, with the hope of finding a hooded warbler.

The department says some species of animals in the area are not located in other parts of the state, such as the black rat snake and the hooded warbler.

The birds — 117 species in all — get their own credits in the film, in order of appearance, starting with a double-crested cormorant and ending with a hooded warbler.

Color, song, habit and temperament combine to make the Hooded Warbler one of the most attractive members of its family.