First Winter Male Common Yellowthroat Warbler

by Jill Nightingale

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First Winter Male Common Yellowthroat Warbler

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Jill Nightingale

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Photograph - Digital Photograph

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First Winter Male Common Yellowthroat Warbler perched on a hedge in South Florida.
About Yellowthroat Warblers:
Common Yellowthroats are small songbirds. Adult males are bright yellow below, with a sharp black face mask and olive upperparts. A thin whitish line sets off the black mask from the head and neck. Immature males show traces of the full mask of adult males. Females are a plain olive brown, usually with yellow brightening the throat and under the tail. They lack the black mask.
Common Yellowthroats spend much of their time skulking low to the ground in dense thickets and fields, searching for small insects.
Yellowthroats live in open areas with thick, low vegetation, ranging from marsh to grassland to open pine forest. Their breeding range stretches across most of the United States, the Canadian provinces, and western Mexico. Yellowthroats are most common in wet areas, which tend to have dense vegetation low to the ground, ideal for skulking and building hidden nests.

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May 17th, 2017

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