Yellow Warbler

Dendroica petechiaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
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Range Map for Yellow Warbler

Overview

Yellow Warbler: Small warbler with olive-yellow upperparts and bright yellow underparts with rust-brown streaks on breast, sides. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is dark with yellow-tinged edges. Has a wider range than any other North American warbler. Eats insects, larvae, and some fruit.

Range and Habitat

Yellow Warbler: Breeds from Alaska east across Canada to Newfoundland and south to southern California, northern Oklahoma, and northern Georgia. Spends winters in southern Florida and the tropics. Preferred habitats include edges of marshes and swamps, willow-lined streams, leafy bogs, thickets, orchards, farmlands, forest edges, and suburban yards and gardens.

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Voice Text

"sweet-sweet-sweet", "sweeter-than-sweet", "chip"

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Related Birds:

American Goldfinch
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Dendroica petechia
Length5 Inches
Wingspan7.75 Inches

Yellow Warbler

Yellow Warbler: Small warbler with olive-yellow upperparts and bright yellow underparts with rust-brown streaks on breast, sides. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is dark with yellow-tinged edges. Has a wider range than any other North American warbler. Eats insects, larvae, and some fruit.

● Song: "sweet-sweet-sweet", "sweeter-than-sweet", "chip"

● Foraging & Feeding: Yellow Warbler: Feeds mostly on insects and spiders, but will take berries; forages in trees and bushes.

● Breeding & nesting: Yellow Warbler: Three to six olive and brown marked, gray, green, or blue eggs are laid in a well-made cup of bark, plant fibers, and down, and built in a small sapling. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Yellow Warbler: American Goldfinch has black wings and tail.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight.
Yellow Warbler Body Illustration_2
● Range & Habitat: Yellow Warbler: Breeds from Alaska east across Canada to Newfoundland and south to southern California, northern Oklahoma, and northern Georgia. Spends winters in southern Florida and the tropics. Preferred habitats include edges of marshes and swamps, willow-lined streams, leafy bogs, thickets, orchards, farmlands, forest edges, and suburban yards and gardens.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationWidespread
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.3 Ounces