Small, round-headed warbler with a beady black eye and stout bill. Adult males are bright yellow overall with a yellow-green back and chestnut streaks on the breast.
Small, round-headed warbler with a beady black eye and stout bill. Females are yellow overall with a yellow-green back and mostly unstreaked yellow underparts.
Hops between branches to forage for insects on leaf surfaces: typical warbler behavior.
Adult male "Mangrove" Yellow Warblers have chestnut heads and chestnut streaking on the breast.
"Mangrove" Yellow Warblers occur in mangroves from Mexico to northern South America. Females/immatures are drab overall and have a grayish nape.
Commonly occupies riparian thickets or young forests during migration and in the breeding season.
Most Yellow (Golden) Warblers have a chestnut-capped and are residents in mangroves in the West Indies.
Immatures are paler yellow overall, although some can be almost entirely grayish.
Builds a deep cup nest constructed with grasses, strips of bark, and spider webs.
Immatures vary from pale yellow to brownish to grayish. Note large beady black eye and stout bill.
Small, round-headed warbler with a beady black eye and stout bill. Adult males are bright yellow overall with a yellow-green back and chestnut streaks on the breast.
Only female Yellow Warblers incubate the eggs, while males continuously forage to feed their mates.
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Yellow Warblers are small, evenly proportioned songbirds with medium-length tails and rounded heads. For a warbler, the straight, thin bill is relatively large.
About the same size as a Yellow-rumped Warbler; slightly larger than an American Goldfinch.
sparrow-sized or smallerYellow Warblers differ only slightly across continental North America. Various subspecies that live year-round in the Caribbean and in mangrove forests of Central and South America have bright chestnut on the crown or over the entire head; these subspecies are often referred to as “Golden” or “Mangrove” Yellow Warblers. There is a very small population of “Mangrove” Yellow Warblers in extreme south Texas.
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