American Yellow Warbler

Gold Warbler ( Dendroica petechia )

The gold Warbler ( Dendroica petechia ) is a small insectivorous bird in the family of warblers ( Parulidae ).

Features

Gold Warbler have a golden yellow plumage, which is criss-crossed at the breast in the male with maroon stripes. The females lack the strip or they are not as pronounced as in the male. Subspecies of gold - warbler also wear rust-colored stripes on the flanks. Species that are native to mangrove forests, have a chestnut colored crown on his head. Overall, the plumage is duller in the female. The top and wing coverts are yellow-green to olive green. There are yellow dots at the ends of the tail feathers. Your thin pointed beaks are gray. The body size is depending on the subspecies between ten and eighteen inches.

Nutrition

They feed primarily on insects, which they pick off the leaves or catch in flight. Occasionally, fruits are eaten.

Reproduction

Between May-June three to six greyish to greenish white, covered with dark spots eggs are hatched. For a nest of bark, grass, hair, and cobwebs is built on a tree in a forked branch or in a bush. A common breeding parasites of the gold - warbler is the brown -headed cowbird ( Molothrus ater).

Occurrence and threat

In total, there are twelve subspecies that inhabit the West Indian Space and the American mainland. The adaptable gold Warbler nest usually in moist habitats with high insect deposits within North America, from Alaska and northern Canada to Mexico, where they inhabit the southern mangroves. Other habitats are located at the edges of swamps, lakes, rivers, near Weiden, in gardens or along forest edges. In winter they move south from California and Florida to areas in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. Subspecies occur further to the Greater Antilles before, of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Hispaniola. One species is found in the Galapagos Islands, another on the Cocos Island. As an infrequent visitor, it occurs also in Western Europe.

Of the twelve species is particularly the Barbados Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia petechia ) whose habitat is on the island of Barbados, endangered by introduced predators, brood parasites and destroying its habitats through tourism. Of the Barbadosgold Forest singers, there are only a few breeding pairs.