Measurements
Both Sexes
- Length
- 5.1–5.5 in
13–14 cm - Wingspan
- 8.3 in
21 cm - Weight
- 0.3–0.4 oz
9–11 g
Other Names
- Paruline gorge jaune (French)
- Reinita gorgiamarilla, Verdín de garganta amarilla (Spanish)
Cool Facts
- The breeding range of the Yellow-throated Warbler is more southerly, its wintering range more northerly, and it has a more extensive resident population in the southern United States than most other warblers.
Habitat
Forest
Breeds in pine forest, sycamore-baldcypress swamp and riparian woodland. Found in migration and winter in a variety of woodland, scrub, brush and thicket situations but most frequently in pine woodland if such habitat is available.
Food
Insects
Insects and spiders.
Nesting
Nesting Facts
- Clutch Size
- 3–5 eggs
- Egg Description
- Pale greenish with dark speckles.
- Condition at Hatching
- Helpless.
Nest Description
Often a cup-shaped pocket in Spanish moss, lined with grasses, weeds, feathers, and strands of moss woven into the nest. Open nests are made of bark strips, grasses, and weed stems, lined with plant down and feathers. Placed high in tree.
Nest Placement
Tree
Behavior
Bark Forager
Forages by creeping along tree branches, probing into cracks, crevices, bundles of pine needles, and Spanish moss.
Conservation
Least Concern
Populations appear stable; appears to be expanding breeding range northward.
Credits
- Hall, G. A. 1996. Yellow-throated Warbler (Dendroica dominica). In The Birds of North America, No. 223 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.