Yellow-throated Warbler

Dendroica dominicaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

General

Yellow-throated Warbler: Medium-sized warbler with plain gray upperparts, bright yellow throat, and white underparts with black spots on sides. Head has black face patch and white eyebrows. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is gray with white spots near corners. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Yellow-throated Warbler: Breeds from Illinois, Ohio, and New Jersey south to Missouri, Texas, the Gulf Coast, and northern Florida. Spends winters from the Gulf Coast states southward. Preferred habitats include forests of pine, cypress, sycamore, and oak, in both swampy places and dry uplands.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"tweede-tweede-tweede-tweede-dee-da-ma-deet"

Interesting Facts

The Yellow-throated Warbler was first described in 1766 by Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist.

It has a more extensive resident population in the southern United States than most other warblers.

It often creeps over the branches of the trunk like a Black-and-white Warbler.

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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Yellow-throated Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler: Medium warbler with gray upperparts, yellow throat, chin, and upper breast, white underparts with black spots on sides. Head has black face patch, white eyebrows. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is gray with white spots near corners. Bill, legs, and feet are black.

● Song: "tweede-tweede-tweede-tweede-dee-da-ma-deet"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow-throated Warbler: Diet includes beetles, moths, flies, grasshoppers, crickets, and spiders; gleans food from leaves and branches.

● Breeding & nesting: Yellow-throated Warbler: Four purple-spotted, pale green eggs are laid in a nest made of grass and bark strips, lined with hair and feathers, and often set in a clump of Spanish moss or in a pine needle bunch. Incubation ranges from 12 to 13 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Yellow-throated Warbler: Wilson's Warbler has longer, darker tail and lacks yellow tail spots. Orange-crowned Warbler is olive-green overall and has paler underparts.

Flight Pattern

Fairly swift direct flight for short distances.

Yellow-throated Warbler Body Illustration

● Range & Habitat: Yellow-throated Warbler: Breeds from Illinois, Ohio, and New Jersey south to Missouri, Texas, the Gulf Coast, and northern Florida. Spends winters from the Gulf Coast states southward. Preferred habitats include forests of pine, cypress, sycamore, and oak, in both swampy places and dry uplands.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.3 Ounces

Field Guide to Birds of North America