Dendroica petechia

Description

Yellow warblers are small, all yellow birds with some gray-brown peeking through in places. The male has reddish-brown streaking on the breast and sides.

Voice

The song of these birds is usually a very cheerful "swee swee swee ti ti ti swee." They often change these notes around to make many different variations of their song. When they fly, their call sounds like a "tzip."

Breeding

April to July

Habitat

Yellow warblers live in bushes around water (like swampland and river edges) or they might show up in your garden at home.

Diet

These little birds hop along branches eating insects and spiders.

Range

You can find yellow warblers in all of Canada and most of the United States (including VT and NH) in the summer or passing through the southernmost states during migration.

Other Useful Information

Yellow warblers usually like to be alone. A yellow warbler may join up with other species of birds when they migrate, but these warblers do not form single-species flocks (flocks made up only of yellow warblers).

Similar Species

Yellow warblers look like a lot of warblers, especially the orange-crowned warbler (does not live in VT and NH); however, no warbler is as completely yellow as the yellow warbler.