Townsend's warbler
Dendroica townsendi
Identification Tips:
- Length: 4.25 inches
- Small, active, insect-eating bird
- Thin, pointed bill
- Broad, yellow supercilium, malar streak and rear of face
- Olive back with black streaks
- White wing bars
- Dark legs
Adult male:
- Black cheek and crown
- Black throat and upper breast
- Mostly yellow underparts with black streaks at sides
Female and immature:
- Female has blackish crown and cheeks while immature's are dark green
- Yellow throat
- Yellow breast, white belly, sides and undertail coverts
- Black streaks on sides
Similar species:
The face pattern of the Townsend's Warbler is very distinctive. Other
species of warbler with mostly yellow faces, wing bars and streaked flanks
don't have such black or dark green cheeks and crowns contrasting with the
yellow supercilium.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.