Common Yellowthroat
by Dawn Currie
Title
Common Yellowthroat
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. A male Common Yellowthroat clinging to reeds along the bank of the wetlands. Photographed in Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands, Viera, Florida.
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Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas): A broad black mask lends a touch of highwayman's mystique to the male Common Yellowthroat. Look for these warblers skulking through tangled vegetation, often at the edges of marshes and wetlands. Yellowthroats are vocal birds, and both their songs and distinctive call notes help reveal the presence of this, one of our most numerous warblers. I found this male at Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands in Viera Florida - hanging out in the vegetation along the edge of the wetlands, just like the book said.
Interesting facts: The Common Yellowthroat was one of the first bird species to be catalogued from the New World, when a specimen from Maryland was described by Linnaeus in 1766. Each male normally has only one mate in his territory during a breeding season. However, a female's mating calls often attract other males, and she may mate with them behind her mate's back.
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January 27th, 2014
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