Yellow-rumped Warbler perched on Moth Mullein

Yellow-rumped Warbler Images, Facts and Information:

Setophaga coronata

  • Yellow-rumped Warblers are large warblers with large heads, long tails with yellow on the face, sides, and rump. Males are brighter and more striking than the slightly duller females.
  • Yellow-rumped Warblers are migratory, there are some populations that are permanent residents in a few areas in their range.
  • Yellow-rumped Warblers prefer breeding habitat that contains coniferous and mixed coniferous-deciduous woodlands,  in the West that can be in mountainous regions from high elevations to sea level on the Pacific coast and in New England on the Atlantic coast.
  • The diet of Yellow-rumped Warblers can vary from insects to berries depending on the season.
  • Yellow-rumped Warblers lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in 12 to 13 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
  • Groups of warblers can be called a “confusion”, “fall” and “bouquet” of warblers.
  • “Butter Butt” is a nickname used for Yellow-rumped Warblers.
  • Yellow-rumped Warblers can live at least 7 years.

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