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Common Yellowthroat

Geothlypis trichasOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
Common Yellowthroat Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Brown to blackish brown.
  • Head Pattern: Plain, Masked
  • Crown Color: Olive-yellow with blue-gray stripe between crown and nape.
  • Forehead Color: Black
  • Nape Color: Olive-yellow
  • Throat Color: Yellow
  • Cere color: No Data
Common Yellowthroat Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 13 cm (5 in)
  • Weight: 11 g (0.4 oz)
  • Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
  • Color: White, Black, Gray, Yellow, Olive
  • Underparts: Yellow
  • Upperparts: Olive-yellow
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid
Common Yellowthroat Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.
  • Wingspan Range: 20 cm (8 in)
  • Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Olive-yellow
  • Under Tail: Olive-yellow
  • Leg Color: Pink
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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Geothlypis trichas
Length5 Inches
Wingspan8 Inches

Common Yellowthroat

Common Yellowthroat: Small, skulking warbler with olive-yellow upperparts, bright yellow throat and breast, and pale gray belly. The head has a black mask with a thick white border above, black bill. Legs are pink. Slow weak flight, alternates periods of rapid wing beats with wings pulled to sides.

● Song: "wichity-wichity-wich", "which-is-it", "chip" removed r from "chip" see column C

● Foraging & Feeding: Common Yellowthroat: Eats grasshoppers, dragonflies, beetles, butterflies, and spiders; sometimes feeds on seeds; forages in shrubbery, grass, and weeds.

● Breeding & nesting: Common Yellowthroat: Three to six white eggs with brown, gray, and black flecks are laid in a loose nest made of grass, sedge, and bark, lined with rootlets, hair, and fine grass, and concealed on or near the ground in a dense clump of weeds or grass. Eggs are incubated for 12 days by the female.

● Similar species: Common Yellowthroat: Male is distinct. Female Connecticut Warbler is larger with brown hood and bolder white eye-ring. Female MacGillivray's and Mourning warblers have gray heads.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.
Common Yellowthroat Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Common Yellowthroat: Breeds throughout Alaska, Canada, and the U.S. Spends winters in southern states and in the tropics. Preferred habitats include briers, damp brushy places, weeds, or grass along country roads or in agricultural lands; also found in cattails, bulrushes, sedges, and willows near streams, swamps, and marshes.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester, Some polygamous
PopulationCommon to abundant
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.4 Ounces