Grace's warbler Dendroica graciae

Identification Tips:

• Length: 4.25 inches
• Small, active, insect-eating bird
• Thin, pointed bill
• Yellow supercilium
• Black forehead
• Gray upperparts
• Yellow throat and breast
• White underparts with black streaks on sides
• White wing bars
• Black legs
• Female similar to male but paler

Similar species:

The face pattern of the Grace's Warbler is unlike any other species except the Yellow-throated Warbler. The Grace's Warbler lives in the Southwestern United States while the Yellow-throated inhabits the Southeast. Grace's lacks the white patch on the side of the neck of the Yellow-throated.

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