Grace's Warbler

Dendroica graciaeOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: GRWA Scientific Name: DENGRA ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178909

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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: Vibrant warbling of slightly rising and accelerating notes, generally in 2 parts.

● 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.

● 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

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Grace's Warbler

Grace's Warbler

Flight Pattern