Yellow-throated Warbler

Dendroica dominicaOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: YTWA Scientific Name: DENDOM ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178905

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Overview

Yellow-throated Warbler: Medium warbler with gray upperparts, yellow throat, chin, and upper breast, white underparts with black spots on sides. Head has black face patch, white eyebrows. Wings are dark with two white bars. Tail is gray with white spots near corners. Bill, legs, and feet are black.

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.

Topo Map: Perching-like Body

Listen to Call

Similar Sounding

Voice Text

"tweede-tweede-tweede-tweede-dee-da-ma-deet"

Interesting Facts

The Yellow-throated Warbler was first described in 1766 by Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist.

It has a more extensive resident population in the southern United States than most other warblers.

It often creeps over the branches of the trunk like a Black-and-white Warbler.

A group of warblers has many collective nouns, including a "bouquet", "confusion", "fall", and "wrench" of warblers.

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Yellow-throated Warbler

● Song: "tweede-tweede-tweede-tweede-dee-da-ma-deet"

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

● Breeding & 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.

● 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.

Flight Pattern

Fairly swift direct flight for short distances.

Yellow-throated Warbler Body Illustration

● Range & 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.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.3 Ounces

Perching-like Body

Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Breast

The upper front part of a bird.

Chin

The area of the face just below the bill.

Face

The front part of the head consisting of the bill, eyes, cheeks and chin.

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