Wilson's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler: Small warbler with olive-green upperparts, bright yellow face and underparts, distinct black cap. It has a long, olive-brown tail which it moves up and down, or in a circular fashion, as it searches for food. It is more common in the West than in the East. Legs and feet are pink.
● Song:
"chip-chip-chip"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Wilson's Warbler: Eats mainly insects (especially leafhoppers) and spiders, but occasionally consumes berries.
● Breeding & nesting:
Wilson's Warbler: Four to seven brown flecked, white to creamy white eggs are laid in a bulky nest made of leaves, rootlets, and moss, lined with hair and fine plant materials, and concealed on the ground in a dense clump of weeds or sedges. Incubation ranges from 10 to 13 days and is carried out by the female.
● Similar species:
Wilson's Warbler: Hooded Warbler has white spots on tail, a longer bill, dark lores, male has a black hood, and female has black or olive crown and sides of neck. Yellow Warbler has a shorter tail, female and juvenile show yellow edging to wings and wing coverts, and yellow spots in tail.