Yellow-rumped Warbler

Dendroica coronataOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Yellow-rumped Warbler Myrtle - The Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warbler has a white eyebrow, throat, neck, and belly. Black cheekpatch and breast. Dark-streaked, blue-gray upperparts and yellow rump and crown. Dark wings have yellow shoulder patches and two white bars. Tail is dark with white corners.

Yellow-rumped Warbler - The Audubon Yellow-rumped Warbler has a yellow throat and lacks white eyestripe.

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler: Medium warbler, dark-streaked, blue-gray upperparts, yellow rump. White throat and belly, black breast. The head is black with yellow crown, white eye-rings, and faint eyestripes. Wings are dark with yellow shoulder patches and two white bars. Tail is dark with white corners.

● Song: "chek"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow-rumped Warbler: Feeds mainly on insects in the summer and on berries and fruits in the winter, particularly wax-coated berries of bayberries and wax myrtles; unique gastrointestinal traits allow it to subsist on this unusual food source.

● Breeding & nesting: Yellow-rumped Warbler: Three to five brown and gray marked, white to creamy white eggs are laid in a bulky nest made of twigs, rootlets, and grass, lined with hair and feathers, and built in a conifer. Incubation ranges from 12 to 13 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Yellow-rumped Warbler: Palm and Magnolia warblers are not as bright and contrasting; also, Palm Warbler has yellow undertail coverts and constantly pumps tail.

Flight Pattern

Rapid flight with quick wing strokes.

● Range & Habitat: Yellow-rumped Warbler: Breeds from northern Alaska, northern Manitoba, central Quebec, and Newfoundland south and west to northern Mexico and east to Michigan, northern New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. Spends winters from the southern part of its breeding range southward into the tropics. A highly adaptable bird found in a variety of habitats including coniferous forests, mixed woodlands, deciduous forests, pine plantation, bogs, forest edges, and openings. In the winter, it is often found in brushy thickets of bayberry and wax myrtle.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationAbundant

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.5 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America