Male Common Yellowthroat in Cattails

Common Yellowthroat Images, Facts and Information:

Geothlypis trichas

  • Common Yellowthroats are small warblers with olive-yellow upperparts, yellow throats and breasts, and pale grayish bellies. Males have black masks with a thick white border above the mask. Females and juveniles have dull yellow or dingy whitish underparts, white eye rings and they lack the black mask.
  • Common Yellowthroats are migratory but some are year round residents in some southern states and areas of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. They breed in Alaska, Canada and the U.S.  Common Yellowthroats spend winter in southern states and the tropics. They prefer habitats that include swamps, marshes, sedges, in willow thickets near streams, briers, and damp brushy spots.
  • Common Yellowthroats eat grasshoppers, spiders, beetles, butterflies, dragonflies, and will sometimes feed on seeds.
  • Common Yellowthroats lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 12 days. The females incubate and they are mostly monogamous, some are polygamous.
  • Groups of warblers can be called a “confusion”, “fall” and “bouquet” of warblers.
  • Common Yellowthroats can live to be 11 years of age.

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