Please Help Pets with a Small Donation of One Dollar









Warblers are small, very active birds commonly called wood warblers
in North America and resembling vireos.

Warblers are bright colored, females a bit duller than male.
Bills are slender, straight and pointed.

Males do all the singing.


Warblers range in length from 4 to 7 in.

The largest species is the yellow-breasted chat.

Warblers feed mostly on insects and only a small amount of plants.


The greatest diversity of wood warblers is found in North America and
the West Indies.

Warblers migrate mainly at night and early morning.


In most of the tropical species both the males and females
are brightly colored, but in the migratory North American
wood warblers, the adult males wear a female like plumage
after the breeding season.

Most of the wood warblers forage in trees and shrubs, but a few are
quite terrestrial. Among these are the ovenbird, the northern water thrush,
and the Louisiana water thrush. All have brown backs and white or
yellowish under parts streaked with black; the genders are alike.

The water thrushes live near water, and bob their tails up and down.

The largest of the northern genera has 21 species in North America and
six more in the West Indies. The yellow warbler, whose name is
aptly descriptive, has the greatest range, covering most of the
North American continent,


More about Warblers

The Warbler is a small perching bird that is active and
insectivorous. They are a dull greenish or brownish in color
and are hard to identify among other similar looking
species. In fact, they have a nickname among birders in the
Old World as "LBJs," meaning "Little Brown Jobs".

The Warbler is from the family Sylviidae or family
Parulidae. They are found in gardens, marshes and woodlands.
They are song birds with no real distinguishing
characteristics. The Yellow Warbler is an exception.

A lot of warblers have some yellow plumage but the Yellow
Warbler is the most yellow of any other warbler species.
This species of Warblers prefers to nest in mangroves and
willows and is the only species with yellow tail spots.

The Yellow Warbler has a small thin pointed bill and has
yellow plumage over most of its body. The male Warbler has
some brown streaks on his chest. The face, throat and upper
parts of the bird are all a bright yellow. The under parts
can be olive to yellow-green in coloring. The wings are
edged with yellow and they have yellow tail spots. The males
can have a brown cap or brown all over the head.

The female looks like the male, just in reverse. The under
parts of the female bird are a bright yellow and the upper
parts are a greenish yellow, along with the face and throat.
They have an indistinct yellow eye ring. They also have
streaks of brown plumage that are narrow and indistinct on
the breast, sides and flanks. Females also have yellow tail
spots like the male, only smaller.

During migration the Yellow Warbler that breeds in Northern
America can be found also in Central America, the Caribbean
and Mexico.

Often when a Yellow Warbler makes a nest the Brown-headed
Cowbird will infect the nest, leaving its own egg. Instead
of moving to another location and building another nest the
Warbler will build a new nest right on top of the old one.
Sometimes a nest can get up to six tiers high because of
this.

Picture Yellow Warbler




Warblers belong to the order Passeriformes.


Dendroica:

CapeMay Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow Rumped Warbler


Golden Headed Warbler:

Bay Breasted Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black Throated Blue Warbler
Black Throated Gray Warbler
Black Throated Green Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut Sided Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Golden Cheeked Warbler
Grace's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Waterthrush
Ovenbird
Pine Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Yellow Breasted Chat
Yellow Throated Warbler


Hybrids:

Bachman's Warbler
Colima Warbler
Lucy's Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Orange Crowned Warbler
Olive Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Tropical Parula
Virginia's Warbler


Oporornis Warbler:

American Redstart
Canada Warbler
Connecticut Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Painted Redstart
Red Faced Warbler
Wilson's Warbler


Wood Warblers:

Black and White Warbler
Blue Winged Warbler
Golden Winged Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson's Warbler
Worm Eating Warbler


Back To:

Index of Perching Birds

Cute Plush Warblers & Birds