MacGillivray's Warbler Images

MacGillivray’s Warbler Images, Facts and Information:

Geothlypis tolmiei

  • MacGillivray’s Warblers are medium sized warblers that have olive green upperparts and yellow underparts, broken white eye-rings and slate gray hoods that extend to their upper breasts where is can darken to black. Females are similar but paler.
  • MacGillivray’s Warblers are migratory.  MacGillivray’s Warblers breed from Alaska and the Yukon south to California and east to New Mexico, they spend winters in the tropics.
  • MacGillivray’s Warblers can be found in their breeding season from sea level to about 9800 feet in elevation in habitats that include forest edges, coniferous forests, brushy cuts, mixed deciduous forests, riparian areas, and thickets.
  • MacGillivray’s Warblers primarily feed on insects.
  • MacGillivray’s Warblers lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 11 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
  • Groups of warblers can be called a “confusion”, “fall” and “bouquet” of warblers.
  • MacGillivray’s Warblers live to be at least 4 years of age.

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