AUDUBON YELLOW RUMPED WARBLER PATCH

How do they interact with us?Īs an insect eater, the Yellow-rumped Warbler may benefit humans by eating potentially harmful (or painful) insects. The Yellow-Rumped Warbler comes to bird feeders for fruit and suet (Gill 1995 Stokes and Stokes 1996 Granlund 1999). They have developed unique gastrointestinal traits to allow them to subsist on this unusual food source. Yellow-rumped Warblers are capable of assimilating 80% of wax-coated berries such as bayberries. The Yellow-Rumped Warbler feeds mainly on insects in the summer and on berries and fruit in the winter. When observed quietly, they often approach relatively close to humans (Hines 1998). They travel in small flocks and appear to be in constant motion, often flitting from branch to branch. During migration, they hawk for insects by darting from branches to catch their flying prey. The Yellow-rumped Warbler forages by searching among the vegetation for food and catching prey in flight. gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate).Two broods may be raised in a season (Stokes and Stokes 1996 Granlund 1999 Georgia Wildlife Website 2000). The chicks are altricial and fledge 12-14 days after hatching. 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.

In the winter it is often found in brushy thickets of bayberry and wax myrtle (Stokes and Stokes 1996 Granlund 1999). 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. Average basal metabolic rate 0.1895 W AnAge.Females and non-breeding males show the same basic pattern but are duller in color than their breeding counterparts (Stokes and Stokes 1996 Dunn 1999 Georgia Wildlife Website 2000). The breeding male Myrtle Warbler has white eyebrows, a white throat, and white sides of neck while the Audubon's Warbler has no eyebrows and a yellow throat. There are two subspecies (previously considered separate species), the north and eastern Myrtle Warbler and the western Audubon's Warbler.

AUDUBON YELLOW RUMPED WARBLER PATCH

During the breeding season, male and female also have a yellow crown patch and white tail patches.

If you can add to the list please send an e-mail to Dan.Birds of either sex in all plumages have a yellow rump and a yellow patch on their side just in front of each wing. Here is the list of birds he's identified during that time, with a few others that other people have seen. Recently Dan Jackson realized that he had found a total of 200 species of birds in Myrick Park and Hixon Forest in the last 15 years or so.

Audubon yellow rumped warbler