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Adult male
Location: Benton Pennsylvania, Columbia County, USA

Dendroica discolor

[edit] Identification

• Yellow underparts
• Flanks streaked with black
• Olive upperparts
• Rusty streaks on back
• Yellow supercilium
• Dark eye-line
• Yellow below eye
• Long tails

Females and juveniles are duller

[edit] Distribution

Eastern North America from Missouri east to southern New York, southern Vermont, southern New Hampshire, and southern Maine south to eastern Texas east to northern Florida. Other birds migrate to northeastern Mexico and islands in the Caribbean.

[edit] Taxonomy

Consists of two subspecies.

[edit] Subspecies¹

• D. d. discolor - breeds throughout eastern United States
• D. d. paludicola - breeds in mangroves and adjacent habitats along coastal Florida

[edit] Habitat

Brushy areas and forest edges.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

They build nests of open cups, which are usually placed in a low area of a tree or shrub. They forage for insects on tree branches.

These birds wag their tail feathers frequently.

[edit] Discussion

They suffer from nest parasitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird.

[edit] Reference

1. Dunn, Jon; Garrett, Kimball. 1997. A Field Guide to Warblers of North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 9780395783214

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