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Golden-crowned Warbler

Basileuterus culicivorusOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Golden-crowned Warbler Breeding Male Portrait
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General

Golden-Crowned Warbler: Medium-sized, tropical warbler with olive-gray upperparts and bold yellow underparts. Midcrown has yellow stripe with black borders. Face is olive-gray with a pale arc below eye. Upper mandible is gray, while lower mandible is pink. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Golden-crowned Warbler: Breeds in northern Mexico and Central America; also occurs in South America and southern Texas.

Listen to Call

Voice Text

"wee-wee-wee-seee", "chew-che-chew-weee"

Interesting Facts

 The Golden-Crowned Warbler will feign injury to distract potential nest predators.

 It has 13 geographical races, which fall into three groups. A Central American culicivorus group, a southwestern cabanisi group, and the aureocapillus group of the southeast. These three groups are sometimes considered to be different species.

 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 Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Basileuterus culicivorus
Length5 Inches
Wingspan7.5 Inches

Golden-crowned Warbler

Golden-Crowned Warbler: Medium-sized, tropical warbler with olive-gray upperparts and bold yellow underparts. Midcrown has yellow stripe with black borders. Face is olive-gray with a pale arc below eye. Upper mandible is gray, while lower mandible is pink. The legs and feet are pink.

● Song: "wee-wee-wee-seee", "chew-che-chew-weee"

● Foraging & Feeding: Golden-crowned Warbler: Eats mainly insects and spiders. Forages on the ground and low in trees; occasionally hawks prey.

● Breeding & nesting: Golden-crowned Warbler: Two to four white eggs with red brown markings at large end are laid in a dome-shaped nest made of grass and plant fibers, lined with finer materials, and built in the shelter of a bank, clump of grass, or large boulder.

● Similar species: Golden-crowned Warbler: Orange-Crowned Warbler is olive-green above with orange crown feathers, usually hidden, and has faintly streaked olive-yellow underparts.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering direct flight of short duration on rapidly beating wings.
Golden-crowned Warbler Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Golden-crowned Warbler: Breeds in northern Mexico and Central America; also occurs in South America and southern Texas.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationCasual
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight0.4 Ounces