as well as Canada and Central America, with the population concentrating in the continent's northern parts during the breeding season and migrating southwards to southern North and Central America in Winter.
Its extensive distribution range connects both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the U.S. GOLDMANI is a permanent resident of the highlands of western Guatemala and adjacent Chiapas. The yellow-rumped warbler is a regular North American bird species that can be commonly observed all across the continent. NIGRIFRONS breeds (and is probably a permanent resident) from northwestern Chihuahua south through the Sierra Madre Occidental through Durango and probably to Jalisco. into Baja California winters from southwestern Canada south throughout western Mexico through Guatemala and uncommonly to Honduras. AUDUBONI breeds from British Columbia south through the western U.S. winters from northwestern, central, and east-central U.S., eastern Mexico (including Yucatan Peninsula), through Central America to Panama (and accidently into northern Colombia and Venezuela), and in Caribbean from the Bahamas through the Greater Antilles, rarely as far east as Virgin Islands. Forages by moving slowly over trunks and branches, also catches insects in flight, and hops on ground picking up small insects and spiders or plucking them from grass (Costa Rica, Stiles and Skutch 1989).ĬORONATA breeds from Alaska and Mackenzie south through Canada to north-central and northeastern U.S. In fall, winter, and spring in the eastern U.S., feeds extensively on MYRICA fruits (Place and Stiles, 1992, Auk 109:334-345). Nests on branches 1-15 m above ground.įeeds on insects (ants, wasps, flys, beetles, mosquitoes, etc.), spiders, some berries and seeds. In migration and winter found in open forests, woodlands, savanna, roadsides, pastures, and scrub habitat (incl. In Costa Rica, often appears by mid-September but not regular before mid-October, departs by late March (Stiles and Skutch 1989). Arrives in Puerto Rico usually in November, departs by March-April (Raffaele 1983).
Extent of migration varies annually depending on environmental conditions. and Canada migrations may be more localized in some areas of the West. In winter, generally occurs in flocks occasionally solitary (Rappole and Warner 1980).īasically a long-distance migrant in the U.S. Young leave nest in 12-14 days (Harrison 1978) Nestlings are tended by both parents, brooded by female. Fifty-second Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds. The change from genus name Dendroica to Setophaga was based on:Ĭhesser, R.T. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. BC Conservation Data Centre: Species SummaryĪmerican Ornithologists' Union (AOU).
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