Birds of Texas

Yellow Warbler (Denidroica petechia) 5"

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Photographs - © Walter Bauer, Sugar Land, Texas - 1999

Field Marks: No other small bird appears to be all yellow. Male shows chestnut-red breast-streaking. If female these are faint or lacking.
Voice: Song, a cheerful, bright tsee-tsee-tsee-tsee-ti-tiwee or weet weet weet weet tsee tsee, given rapidly. Variable.
Where found: Alaska, Canada, south to West Indies, cent. Peru. Winters from Mexico, Bahamas, south. This bird was seen in New Braunfels, Texas up in the canopy of a pecan tree.
Texas: Migrant (Apr-May, Aug-Oct) throughout. Summers locally along water courses in ne. Texas, Panhandle, Edwards Plateau (local), and Trans-Pecos.

Habitat: Willows, Stream sides, shrubs.

Nest: solidly built cup in upright crotch of shrub. Eggs (4-5) speckled.