Yellow-throated warbler Dendroica dominica

Identification Tips:

• Small, active, insect-eating bird
• Often forages high in the canopy
• Long, thin, slightly decurved bill
• White supercilium-lores can be white or yellow (depending on race)
• Black forehead, eyeline, cheek extends onto side of neck
• White patch on neck
• Gray upperparts
• Yellow throat and breast
• White underparts with black streaks on sides
• White wing bars
• Black legs
• Female and immature plumages nearly identical to male

Similar species:

The face pattern of the Yellow-throated Warbler is unlike any other species except the Grace's Warbler. The Grace's Warbler lives in another part of the country (the Southwest) and lack the white patch on the side of the neck.