Chunky warbler with a gray hood and white eye crescents. Olive above and yellow below. Lacks wingbars.
Females and immatures are paler than males and lack the darker patches around the eye and chest. Note gray hood, white eye crescents, and yellow underparts.
Song is a series of churring syllables, sometimes ending with a sweet-toned warble.
Chunky warbler with a gray hood and white eye crescents. Olive above and yellow below. Lacks wingbars.
Chunky warbler with a gray hood and white eye crescents. Feathers in front of the eye and on the chest are darker than the rest of the hood. Olive above and yellow below. Lacks wingbars.
Females and immatures are paler than males and lack the darker patches around the eye and chest. Note gray hood, white eye crescents, and yellow underparts.
Breeds in areas with dense understories, including regenerating clearcuts, regrowing burned forests, thickets, riparian areas, and deciduous forests.
Click on an image to compare
A compact, small songbird with a full body for a warbler and a thick neck. The bill is straight and thin overall, although heavier than many other warblers’ bills. The tail is medium length and the legs are fairly long.
Slightly larger than a Common Yellowthroat, slightly smaller than a Pine Warbler.
sparrow-sized or smallerOrnithologists currently recognize two subspecies: tolmiei that breeds on the west side of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, from Alaska to southern California (the Pacific Slope), and monticola that breeds east of that region, in the Rocky Mountains from British Columbia to Arizona. Plumage tones differ markedly, with tolmiei a saturated yellowish olive above and bright yellow below, and monticola more grayish olive above and a paler greenish yellow below. The small, isolated population in northern Mexico is genetically very distinct from the nearest U.S. populations and probably diverged over a million years ago, during the early Pleistocene.
Need Bird ID Help? Try Merlin
The Cornell Lab will send you updates about birds,
birding, and opportunities to help bird conservation.
