Orange-crowned Warbler Images

Orange-crowned Warbler Images, Facts and Information:

Leiothlypis celata

  • Orange-crowned Warblers are small warblers with thin, pointy bills, they are generally yellow-olive overall with faintly streaked breasts and they always have yellow undertail coverts. Regionally head color varies from gray in the East to yellow-green in the West, immature birds tend to be grayer than adults.
  • Orange-crowned Warblers are migratory. There are a few areas in Washington, Oregon, California and the Baja Peninsula of Mexico where they are year round residents.
  • During their breeding season they can be found from Alaska east to Labrador, the Rocky Mountains, Northwest and the Southwest U.S., they spend winter in the southern U.S. into the tropics.
  • The preferred habitat of Orange-crowned Warblers include thickets, marshes, riparian areas, forest edges, burns, clearings and areas with low deciduous growth.
  • Orange-crowned Warblers eat berries, invertebrates, nectar and sap, they regularly feed at sap wells of Red-naped Sapsuckers.
  • Orange-crowned Warblers lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 12 to 14 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
  • Groups of warblers can be called a “confusion”, “fall” and “bouquet” of warblers.
  • Orange-crowned Warblers can live to be more than 8 years old.

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