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Grace's Warbler

Dendroica graciaeOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

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General

Grace's Warbler: Medium-sized, flycatching warbler with gray upperparts and black streaks on back and crown. Underparts are white with dark streaks on sides and yellow on throat and breast. Yellow eyebrows turn white behind eyes. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is dark with white outer feathers. Female has duller gray upperparts and finer black streaks on sides. Juvenile lacks yellow on throat and breast.

Range and Habitat

Grace's Warbler: Breeds from southern Nevada, Utah, and Colorado southward along the mountains of the southwest. Spends winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Preferred habitats include coniferous or mixed forests.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"chew chew chew chew chee chee chee", "chip", "sip"

Interesting Facts

  • The Grace's Warbler is named for Grace Darlington Coues, the sister of Dr. Elliott Coues, who discovered it and asked his friend, Spencer Fullerton Baird, to name it after Grace.
  • Like the vast majority of warblers, it is totally insectivorous. It will often hover to inspect pine cones for insect larvae.
  • This little bird lives high up in pine forests, thus making it difficult to observe. As a result, not much is known about its life history.
  • A group of warblers has many collective nouns, including a "bouquet", "confusion", "fall", and "wrench" of warblers.


Author

Gary Owen Dick

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Family
Species Dendroica graciae
Length4.75 Inches
Wingspan7.75 Inches

Grace's Warbler

Grace's Warbler: Medium flycatching warbler with gray upperparts and black streaks on back and crown. Underparts are white with dark streaks on sides and yellow on throat and breast. Yellow eyebrows turn white behind eyes. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is dark with white outer feathers.

● Song: "chew chew chew chew chee chee chee", "chip", "sip"

● Foraging & Feeding: Grace's Warbler: Eats mostly insects; forages in the upper canopy, gleaning food from leaves and branches of pines, hemlocks, and spruces. Occasionally catches flying insects in mid-air.

● Breeding & nesting: Grace's Warbler: Three or four white eggs, with brown spots and splotches, are laid in a small cup nest made of rootlets and bark shreds, lined with hair or feathers, and built in a conifer, some 20 to 60 feet above the ground. Incubation ranges from 11 or 12 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Grace's Warbler: None in range.

Flight Pattern

Fairly rapid flight with rapid wing strokes.
Grace's Warbler Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Grace's Warbler: Breeds from southern Nevada, Utah, and Colorado southward along the mountains of the southwest. Spends winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Preferred habitats include coniferous or mixed forests.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationFairly common to common
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.3 Ounces