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.

Breeding and 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.

Foraging and Feeding

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

Readily Eats

Sugar Water, Fruit, Nut Pieces

Vocalization

Yellow-throated Warbler: Song is a series of clear ringing notes descending in pitch and increasing in speed, rising abruptly at the end "tweede-tweede-tweede-dee-da-ma-deet."

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.