Black-throated Green Warbler

Dendroica virensOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

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Black-throated Green Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler: Medium-sized warbler with olive-green upperparts, black-streaked flanks, and white underparts. Face is yellow with black eyestripe and bill. Crown is olive green. Throat and upper breast are black. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is dark. Black legs and feet.

● Song: "trees-trees--trees", "zay-zay-zoo-zeee"

● Foraging & Feeding: Black-throated Green Warbler: Eats insects, fruits, and seeds.

● Breeding & nesting: Black-throated Green Warbler: Three to five brown and purple marked, white or gray eggs are laid in a cup of grass, moss, and plant fibers, lined with hair and feathers, and built on a branch of a conifer. Female incubates eggs for about 12 days.

● Similar species: Black-throated Green Warbler: Golden-cheeked Warbler has black crown and eye-line.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.

Black-throated Green Warbler Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Black-throated Green Warbler: Breeds from eastern British Columbia, Ontario, and Newfoundland south to Alberta, Minnesota, Ohio, northern New Jersey, and in the mountains to Georgia. Spends winters from Florida and Texas southward. Preferred habitats include open stands of hemlock or pine.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.3 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America