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Common Yellowthroat

Geothlypis trichas ORDER: PASSERIFORMES FAMILY: PARULIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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A skulking masked warbler of wet thickets, the Common Yellowthroat is far more frequently heard than seen. Its "wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty" can be heard from the Yukon to Newfoundland, and from southern Florida to southern Mexico.

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Calls

  • Song, calls
    Recorded by Steven R. Pantle; Peter Paul Kellogg
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Song a musical "wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty, wich-i-ty." Call note a distinctive sharp "tchat."

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