Hermit warbler Dendroica occidentalis

Identification Tips:

• Length: 4.25 inches
• Small, active, insect-eating bird
• Thin, pointed bill
• Yellow face and forehead
• Grayish nape and upperparts
• Mostly white underparts with no black streaks at sides
• White wing bars
• Dark legs

Adult male:

• Black throat
• A few black spots at sides of upper breast

Female and immature:

• Cheeks are ever-so-slightly darker than rest of face
• Throat white to yellow and may be smudged with black

Similar species:

Other warblers with mostly yellow faces and wing bars have darker crowns and streaked flanks.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.