#yrwa

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My best eBird photos of May 2024*

Cliff Swallow, Great Blue Heron, Song Sparrow, Rock Wren, Yellow-rumped Warbler

*sort of

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some of the better pictures of birds from my banding lab last semester

in order: Common Grackle, the same common grackle from the front (very silly), a white-throated sparrow (white morph), the same wtsp from a different angle, a red-winged blackbird!!!, and a yellow-rumped warbler

all birds were captured with the necessary permits and released unharmed

[lies]

A lovely photo of a beautiful bird.

Also… a female. 😜 Her auriculars are on the dark, slaty side for a female bird, but still not the black that they should be for a breeding-plumage male. It doesn��t really matter, and Tumblr won’t notice anyway; this site is great at amplifying heartfelt but wrong information. It’s its superpower.

But again; doesn’t matter.

A yellow-Rumped-Warbler is aptly named. 

This one is a male - he looks happy and heathy; ready for mating season.  

An excellent example of a beautiful songbird. 

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I'm going to make an entire post ranting about how Yellow-rumped Warbler needs to be split into three different species and it's going to either be my magnum opus or it will be a garbled mess

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some eddsworld sketches ywra yrwa yrwa

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Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler  (Setophaga coronata coronata)

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

Magee Marsh

Oak Harbor, OH

[lies]

So. Many. YRWAs.

Beautiful October weather brought out the Yellow-rumped Warblers (Setophaga coronata) in good numbers today. They moved quickly through the trees gleaning what they could find.

[lies]

Someone’s been eating the sticky eucalyptus nectar again.

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Yellow-rumped Warbler

Virginia, March 2024.

[lies]

It’s raining in Carp tonight, and our local Butterbutts (mostly Audubon’s, but a few Myrtle’s like this one, too) are probably looking like this. We’ve evacuated (again; fourth time now). The heaviest rains aren’t due until Thursday. Fingers crossed that our house comes through okay. Pretty sure many people’s houses won’t.

I’m more worried about all the people who I know are rolling the dice by ignoring the evacuation order. My neighbor across the street is staying; I talked to him as we were leaving, and he waved off my comment that this storm was going to be bigger than last time. “That’s what they said last time,” he said.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

One wet Butterbutt (Yellow-rumped Warbler) – Photo by Dave Govoni

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Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) - (Setophaga coronata audubonii)

Chadron State Park - Fall 2023

One of my favorite fall warblers, Yellow-rumped Warblers often get this rich brown coloring in the fall that feels warmer to me than other brown-ish warblers. That's just a personal thing, though. These are the most common winter warbler in North America. While most other warblers have to move to warmer climates to continue catching bugs, Yellow-rumped Warblers can withstand cooler climates and enjoy eating fruit as much as insects, a food source that continues to be available through-out the winter.

Audubon's Warblers are the subspecies of YRWA in the western states, though they can still turn up in the East every now and then. In this fall plumage, they're most easily told from Myrtle Warblers (the Eastern subspecies) by their buttery yellow throats, though often times they also have more white in their tail and less streaking along their flanks. In breeding plumage the two are much easier to tell apart (but that's a post for another day).

All banding, marking, and sampling is being conducted under a federally authorized Bird Banding Permit issued by the U.S. Geological Survey's BBL. Permission to share images was granted by Bird Conservancy of the Rockies (BCR).

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Yellow-rumped warbler in a mid-May snowstorm.

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Looks like a Myrtle, which is the more common subspecies in Texas but very much less common than Audubon’s out my way.

A Yellow-rumped warbler in Pearland! (at Shadow Creek Ranch Nature Trail)