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Yellow Warbler |
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Dendroica petechia |
| Description: 4 1/2-5" Bright yellow with light olive green tinge on back, male has fine rusty streaks on breast, the only largely yellow warbler with yellow (not white) spots in tail | Habitat: . Very common in marshes, swamps, streamside groves, willow and alder thickets, open woodlands with thickets, orchards, gardens, coastal mangroves |
| Nesting: 4-5 pale blue eggs thickly spotted with brown, in a well-made cup of bark, plant fibers and down, lined with soft fibers, placed in an upright fork in a small sapling | Range: breeds across much of North America, winters in tropics |
| Voice: song a bright, musical sweet-sweet-sweet - sweeter than sweet, call a sharp chip | Diet: insects, worms, and a few berries |
| Notes: one of most widespread of warblers with great geographical variation, principal victim of cowbird, warbler often responds by burying it along with some of its own eggs underneath a new nest, nests with up to six layers have been found, females occasionally steal nesting material from each other, quite tame garden bird in east |
| When present in Oklahoma: present statewide year-round, more abundant during summer |