The Yellow-rumped Warbler forages by searching among the vegetation for food and catching prey in flight.
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The chicks are altricial and fledge 12-14 days after hatching.
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The outside diameter of the nest is 7.6 to 8.9 cm.įour to five cream eggs with brown spots are laid, and incubation lasts 12 to 13 days. The nest is placed on a horizontal branch near the trunk of a conifer tree 5 to 50 feet in height (the average height of the nest is 20 feet). A neat cup made of twigs, bark strips, rootlets, and lined with grasses, hair, and feathers serves as a nest for the Yellow-rumped Warbler. The Yellow-rumped Warbler breeds in monogamous pairs.
YELLOW RUMPED WARBLER PATCH
During the breeding season, male and female also have a yellow crown patch and white tail patches. In the winter it is often found in brushy thickets of bayberry and wax myrtle (Stokes and Stokes 1996 Granlund 1999).īirds of either sex in all plumages have a yellow rump and a yellow patch on their side just in front of each wing.
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The Yellow-rumped Warbler is a facultative migrant (it moves with food availability and weather) and so has a drastically changing winter range depending on yearly conditions (Stokes and Stokes 1996 Granlund 1999).Ī highly adaptable bird, the Yellow-rumped Warbler can be found in a variety of habitats including coniferous forest, mixed woodlands, deciduous forest, pine plantation, bogs, forest edges, and openings. The winter range extends from the southern states to the West Indies and Central America. Its breeding range stretches across Canada, but in the eastern United states, the Yellow-Rumped Warbler is only seen as far south as the Great Lakes states. During the spring and summer in the western side of its range, it can be found as far north as central Alaska and as far south as Central America. The Yellow-rumped Warbler has a large breeding range.