![]() ![]() Females of both forms are more dull, with brown streaking front and back, but still have noticeable yellow rumps. Audubon’s warbler also sports a yellow throat patch, while the myrtle warbler has a white throat and eye stripe, and a contrasting black cheek patch. Before this young Yellow Warbler migrates in the fall all of its gray natal down will be replaced with the yellow feathers that give this species their common name. In summers, males of both forms have streaked backs of black on slate blue, white wing patches, a streaked breast, and conspicuous yellow patches on the crown, flank, and rump (the latter giving rise to the species’s nickname “butterbutt” among birdwatchers ). Inquisitive young Yellow Warbler in the Wasatch Mountains Nikon D500, f7.1, 1/1600, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light. Among warblers Audubon’s is by far the most widespread in North America in winter, and in the northern and central parts of the continent, it is among the last to leave in the fall and among the first to return and is an occasional vagrant to the British Isles and Iceland. The myrtle and Audubon’s forms are migratory, traveling to the southern U.S., Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean for winters. Its ability to use these fruits allows it to winter farther north than other warblers, sometimes as far north as Newfoundland. The Yellow-rumped Warbler is the only warbler able to digest the waxes found in bayberries and wax myrtles. “Goldman’s” yellow-rumped warbler is a non-migratory endemic within the highlands of Guatemala and the black-fronted warbler is also a non-migratory Mexican endemic. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Scientific name: Setophaga coronata). (from Wikipedia) The yellow-rumped warbler breeds from eastern North America west to the Pacific, and southward from there into Western Mexico. British & Irish Rarity Status: Mega Setophaga coronata coronata, Not Specified, Subspecies Setophaga coronata hooveri, Not Specified, Subspecies. ![]() STATUS: Common in winter, spring, and fall in all regions. Wood warblers subsist mainly on insects during breeding season and are primarily foliage. The Yellow-rumped Warbler is a member of the New World Warbler or Wood Warbler family ( Parulidae ). In Alabama during: Fall | Spring | Winter The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata) is a common yellow and black warbler that breeds in mature conifer and mixed forests in the Adirondacks.
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