Yellow-Rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata)

County List:

Rule:

Forested or Mixed Forested/Nonforested Landscapes

      (Spruce/Fir (Pole or Sm Saw or Lg Saw or Uneven))
      or (Hemlock (Pole or Sm Saw or Lg Saw or Uneven))
      or (Red Pine (Pole or Sm Saw or Lg Saw or Uneven))
      or (White Pine Pole or Sm Saw or Lg Saw or Uneven))
      or (Any Upland Mixed (Pole or Sm Saw or Lg Saw or Uneven))
      or Treed Bog

Habitat List:

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Literature:

Habitat: Basically a bird of the coniferous woodlands, the Yellow-rumped Warbler favors dry forests dominated by spruce and balsam fir. It is however, adaptable to various forest and edge habitats, including mixed woodlands, pine plantations, spruce-tamarack bogs, and borders of forest openings. Atlas Habitat Survey data indicated resident Yellow-rumped Warblers in all of these types but with major occurrence in the northern hardwood category of mesic mixed forests.

The Yellow-rumped Warbler places its rather bulky nest well out on a horizontal conifer branch, often lining the nest with Ruffed Grouse feathers. Nest height ranges from 15 to 20 feet. Insectivorous during the breeding season, Yellow-rumped Warblers consumes large amounts of fruit and berries in the fall and winter, when they forage in edge, swamp, and stream thickets.

Habitat: Breeding: Coniferous woods (especially in spruce-fir) or in young coniferous growth near the edges of woods; sometimes in mixed woods. Wintering: Along the coast in any type of woodland, in thickets, gardens.

Special Habitat Requirements: Coniferous trees (summer), bayberry thickets (winter).

Habitat: Conifer forests. In winter, varied; open woods, brush, thickets, gardens, even beaches. In the north, breeds in coniferous and mixed forests, preferring more open stands and edges in pine, fir, spruce, aspen; also spruce-tamarack bogs. In winter, common in many lowland habitats, especially coastal bayberry thickets in east and streamside woods in west.

Diet: Insects and berries. Feeds on caterpillars, wasps, grasshoppers, gnats, aphids, beetles, and many other insects; also spiders. Feeds in winter on berries of bayberry, juniper, wax myrtle, poison-ivy, and others. Can winter farther north than most warblers because it can digest the wax in berry coatings.

Nest: Placed 4-50 feet above ground, usually on horizontal branch away from trunk of conifer or sometimes deciduous tree; sometimes in fork where branch meets trunk. Nest is open cup made of bark fibers, weeds, twigs, roots; lined with hair and feathers in such a way as to curve over and partly cover the eggs.