The male yellow warbler sports a fitting lemon-yellow body with reddish streaking on the chest. His pleasant thin song follows a musical pattern that sounds like “sweet-sweet-sweet-I’m-so-sweet.” They ...

GRAND FORKS – The yellow warbler is the most abundant warbler in our area most of the time. Exceptions would be the passage of yellow-rumped warblers in spring and fall, and perhaps some unpredictable ...

May has lived up to one of its names as “the greening month,” beginning as bare woods and ending fully green. Shrubs and small trees began this change, with larger trees being late. Once foliated, the ...

Warblers, according to one classic old bird book — 1897’s “Bird Neighbors” by Neltje Blanchan — are a family of birds characterized as “exceedingly active, graceful, restless feeders among the ...

The yellow-rumped warbler is aptly named, but the rump is only one of five spots of yellow on this little bird. The others are at the top of the head, the throat and on either side of the breast.

I recently introduced the many autumn birds that have now returned to our latitudes, the shorebirds, ducks, raptors, sparrows and other songbirds that journey south each fall. There are many of these ...

A Warbler’s Journey, written by Pennsylvania naturalist Scott Weidensaul and illustrated by Nancy Lane, is a beautiful and informative book. Through the travels of the yellow warbler, readers learn ...

I realize that I wrote a column on the yellow-rumped warbler just last week, but I recently had an encounter with this species that was as wonderful as it was unexpected. And while I very rarely ...

Not all birds commonly seen in California live here year-round. Some appear for just a few weeks during their spring or fall migration. Others may stay for the summer. Yellow-rumped warblers and ...

A female Galápagos yellow warbler falls asleep on her nest during a playback of cowbird calls, which usually provoke aggressive responses in mainland warblers. Researchers are realizing that animal ...

Residents in the northernmost tundra of Canada are sharing images of surprising critters that have made their way up to the region. A yellow warbler and a brown bat were spotted in Nunavut in recent ...