Warblers are small, often colorful birds that can't sit still. Since they are bug eaters, they have been returning to our neighborhood in recent weeks. Some will stay and nest here during the summer, ...

I felt like a hobbit trying to be invisible as I hunkered down in a damp thicket at the muddy edge of Escondido’s Eagle Scout Lake. But as I looked out from the surrounding brush, I could see a ...

On the left you see an immature male common yellowthroat. He has the yellow throat, but only a suggestion of the mask that will darken to black over the winter. On the right you see an immature female ...

Today, Brooklyn Bird Watch features a Heather Wolf photo of a male juvenile Common Yellowthroat. In the Midwest the adult Yellowthroat is called the “Yellow Bandit”, because of its Lone Ranger style ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — As beginning birder in my teenage years, I still remember quite clearly my first glimpse of this exotic appearing bird. It was 1968 and at Buena Vista Lagoon north of San Diego in ...

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1. Female preferences for particular male ornaments may shift between populations as a consequence of ecological differences that change the reliability and detectability of the ornament, but few ...

It’s a good year to be a common yellowthroat in Kansas, because of the uncommon amount of rain we’ve had this spring. These five-inch birds nest statewide. Some of their best nesting areas have been ...

A mated female was observed singing in a color-banded population of Common Yellowthroats (Geothlypis trichas) in New York State in 2011. This female continued to sing, often concurrently with her mate ...