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Dendroica petechia

(blue-eyed yellow warbler)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in Dutch:

Gele Zanger

Common Names in English:

American Yellow Warbler, Barbados Yellow Warbler, blue-eyed yellow warbler, Golden Warbler, mangrove warbler, summer warbler, Summer Yellowbird, Wild Canary, Yellow Poll, yellow titmouse, Yellow Warbler, Yellowbird

Common Names in French:

paruline jaune

Common Names in German:

Goldwaldsänger

Common Names in Italian:

Dendroica gialla

Common Names in Japanese:

キイロアメリカムシクイ

Common Names in Spanish:

Chipe amarillo, Reinita amarilla

Common Names in Swedish:

Gul skogssångare

Description

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Physical Description

Adult Female: Body: Back: yellowish olive Tail: yellowish olive.Adult Male: Head : bright yellow Face : yellow Eye Color: dark Body: Underparts: bright yellow with reddish streaks Tail: yellow Length : short.

Color:

Adult male: Plumage golden yellow · Rusty streaks on breast and flanks

Female and immature : Plain yellow plumage · Streaks on breast absent or barely noticeable · Some birds have pale gray wash to plumage (southwestern United States)

Size/Age/Growth

About 5 inches long, with a wingspan of 7.75 to 7.75 inches. Adults weigh about 0.3 ounces .

Habitat

Found in orchards, thickety shrubs , and brushy wood margins .

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest, mangrove forests, arid lowland scrubs, tropical deciduous forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests and woodlands • Foraging Strata: Canopy • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low

Ecology: List of Habitats :

Biology

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Diet

Almost Exclusively: Insects. Lesser Quantities of: Fruit.

Reproduction

Nests from early May to early July.

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Dendroica petechia (Linnaeus, 1766)

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

Similar Species

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Wilson's Warbler, Orange-Crowned Warbler

Members of the genus Dendroica

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 52 species and subspecies in this genus:

D. adelaidae (Adelaide's Warbler) · D. angelae (Elfin-Woods Warbler) · D. caerulescens (Black-Throated Blue Warbler) · D. caerulescens caerulescens (Black-Throated Blue Warbler) · D. castanea (Little Chocolate-Breast Titmouse) · D. cerulea (Cerulean Warbler) · D. chrysopareia (Golden-Cheeked Warbler) · D. chrysoparia (Golden-Cheeked Wood Warbler) · D. coronata (Golden-Crowned Flycatcher) · D. coronata auduboni (Audubon's Warbler) · D. coronata coronata (Yellow-Rumped Warbler) · D. delicata (St. Lucia Warbler) · D. discolor (Prairie Warbler) · D. discolor discolor (Prairie Warbler) · D. discolor paludicola (Florida Prairie Warbler) · D. dominica (Sycamore Yellow-Throated Warbler) · D. dominica dominica (Yellow-Throated Warbler) · D. dominica stoddardi (Stoddard's Yellow-Throated Warbler) · D. fusca (Orange-Throated Warbler) · D. graciae (Northern Grace's Warbler) · D. graciae graciae (Northern Grace's Warbler) · D. kirtlandii (Kirtland's Wood Warbler) · D. maculosa (Blue-Headed Yellow-Rumped Warbler) · D. magnolia (Blue-Headed Yellow-Rumped Warbler) · D. nigrescens (Black-Throated Grey Warbler) · D. nigrescens nigrescens (Black-Throated Gray Warbler) · D. occidentalis (Western Warbler) · D. palmarum (Yellow Red-Poll Warbler) · D. palmarum hypochrysea (Palm Warbler) · D. palmarum palmarum (Palm Warbler) · D. pensylvanica (Golden-Crowned Flycatcher) · D. petechia (Blue-Eyed Yellow Warbler) · D. petechia aureola (Yellow Warbler) · D. petechia brewsteri (Yellow Warbler) · D. petechia gundlachi (Cuban Yellow Warbler) · D. petechia petechia (Barbados Yellow Warbler) · D. petechia sonorana (Sonoran Yellow Warbler) · D. pharetra (Arrow-Headed Warbler) · D. pinus (Pine-Creeping Warbler) · D. pinus florida (Pine Warbler) · D. pinus pinus (Pine-Creeping Warbler) · D. pityophila (Olive-Capped Warbler) · D. plumbea (Plumbeous Warbler) · D. striata (Black-Polled Warbler) · D. subita (Barbuda Warbler) · D. tigrina (Cape May Warbler) · D. townsendi (Townsend's Warbler) · D. virens (Green Black-Throated Flycatcher) · D. virens virens (Green Black-Throated Flycatcher) · D. virens waynei (Black-Throated Green Warbler) · D. vitellina (Vitelline Warbler) · D. vitellina vitellina (Vitelline Warbler)

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 13, 2008:

Identifiers

Last Revised: 2012-07-18