Yellow Bird
by Blair Wainman
Title
Yellow Bird
Artist
Blair Wainman
Medium
Photograph - Print
Description
North America has more than 50 species of warblers, but few combine brilliant color and easy viewing quite like the Yellow Warbler. In summer, the buttery yellow males sing their sweet whistled song from willows, wet thickets, and roadsides across almost all of North America. The females and immatures aren�t as bright, and lack the male�s rich chestnut streaking, but their overall warm yellow tones, unmarked faces, and prominent black eyes help pick them out.
Yellow Warblers are uniformly yellow birds. Males are a bright, egg-yolk yellow with reddish streaks on the underparts. Both sexes flash yellow patches in the tail. The face is unmarked, accentuating the large black eye.
Yellow Warblers breed in shrubby thickets and woods, particularly along watercourses and in wetlands. Common trees include willows, alders, and cottonwoods across North America and up to about 9,000 feet in the West. In winter they mainly occur in mangrove forests of Central and South America.
This one was captured some 50 kms southeast of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada
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June 3rd, 2011
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Comments (9)
William Tasker
Stunning bird and shot, Blair! And I remembered to click the feature button this time! :) Thank you for submitting this beautifully captured and identified bird image which has been featured on the homepage of the group, Wild Birds Of The World - A Nature Photography Group - L/F
Roena King
Truly amazing. I have seen one of these yellow warblers once, and it was almost a split second to look and then he flew off. This is a wonderful shot. What amazes me though is that the bird book says they are common and they cover almost all of north America. I have been birding for years and have seen one. sigh
Blair Wainman replied:
Thank you Roena!! You know, distribution maps don't tell the whole story...as you point out! This last year I never even saw one...yet the year before they were everywhere!
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