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Yellow Warbler -
(Dendroica petechia) 

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Identification

  • Small, bright yellow songbird
  • Back and wings slightly darker
  • Male has chestnut-red streaks on breast
  • Female duller yellow, no reddish streaks
  • 4.5-5" (11-13 cm.) 

Habitat

  • Wet, shrubby areas
  • Brushy pastures
  • Forest edge

Additional Information

  • Common migrant, common summer resident
  • Often a host for Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Sometimes builds new nest atop
         old nest when cowbird eggs
         are discovered
  • Common KVR breeding bird

Female Yellow warbler in a willow tree

Male Yellow Warbler poses for a picture

 

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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