Medium warbler, dark-streaked,
blue-gray upperparts, yellow rump.
White throat and belly, black breast.
The head is black with yellow crown, white eye-rings, and faint eyestripes. Wings are dark with yellow shoulder patches and two white bars.
Tail is dark with white corners.

The Audubon Yellow-rumped
Warbler has a yellow throat and lacks white eyestripe.


YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
Dendroica coronata
PASSERIFORMES
Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Range and Habitat

Breeds from northern Alaska, northern Manitoba, central Quebec, and Newfoundland south and west to northern Mexico and east to Michigan, northern New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. Spends winters from the southern part of its breeding range southward into the tropics. A highly adaptable bird found in a variety of habitats including coniferous forests, mixed woodlands, deciduous forests, pine plantation, bogs, forest edges, and openings. In the winter, it is often found in brushy thickets of bayberry and wax myrtle.

SOUND: "chek"

The Yellow-rumped Warbler is one of the most common warblers in North America. The eastern Myrtle and western Audubon forms were once considered separate species.
Easily identified from one another, the Myrtle has a white throat, while the Audubon’s is yellow.

Able to digest 80% of wax-coated berries such as bayberries, the Yellow-rumped Warbler is capable of wintering farther north than any other warbler.

A group of warblers has many collective nouns, including a "bouquet", "confusion", "fall", and "wrench" of warblers.



The Yellow-rumped Warbler has a tremendous range reaching up to generally 9.8 million kilometers. This bird can be found in much of the Caribbean as well as parts of North, and Central America including Bahama, Belize, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico and others. There are also vagrant populations in Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the UK. Its preferred habitat includes temperate, tropical and subtropical forests, shrublands and even rural gardens.

The global population of this bird is estimated to be around 90 million individuals. It is not believed that the population trends for this species will soon approach the minimum levels that could suggest a potential decline in population. Due to this, population trends for the Yellow-rumped Warbler have a present evaluation level of Least Concern.