Yellow Warbler - Photos by Bruce Dayton - Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia)

ORDER: Passeriformes
FAMILY: Parulidae (Wood Warblers - 50 Species)
SPECIES: Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia)

Yellow Warbler
If the female Yellow Warbler discovers a cowbird egg in her nest, She may reject the cowbird egg by making a completely new nest or she may cover the alien egg with a new foundation, a new nest on top of the cowbird egg. She quickly lays another clutch of eggs. There are times when she may incubate the cowbird's eggs.
SIZE	The Yellow Warbler is a small (5-6") songbird of the wood warbler family.
DESCRIPTION	Male is bright yellow with a light olive green tinge on back and light rusty streaks on chest. Female is similar in appearance to male except not quite as bright yellow and the rusty streaks on their breasts are faint or absent.
NESTING	Clutch size ranges from 4-5 eggs, which are incubated in 11 to 12 days. The female builds a nest of bark and grass, lined with plant down in a tree or shrub.
RANGE	Yellow warblers spend the most of the year throughout North America, Alaska and Canada.
HABITAT	They habitat bushes, swamps, willow-lined streams, orchards, forest edges, and gardens.
DIET	Feed on insects, grubs, spiders, especially caterpillars and occasionally berries.

INTERESTING FACTS

Bird feeding tips - Fall

1. Peanuts and a commercial nut mix
2. A Hummingbird sugar-water feeder.
3. White Proso millet or millet mixes scattered for the ground-feeding birds.
4. A general feeder filled with the staples, such as a mixture of (mostly) Black oil sunflower seeds, cracked corn, safflower seeds and a blend mixture.
5. Source of fresh water.

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Yellow Warbler

Sapsucker Woods Bird Sanctuary Tompkins County, New York


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Tyre Township Seneca County, New York


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Yellow Warbler Drawing by Louis Agassiz Fuertes