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This Stunning Little Songbird Suddenly Shines Due To His Intensely Yellow Throat And Luminous, Silvery-white, Bushy Eyebrows!

An otherwise small warbler’s dull overall body suddenly shines due to their intensely yellow throat.

Meet the Common Yellowthroat

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The common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) is a small skulking songbird with dull olive backs, wings, and tails. This look is suddenly brightened by a luminous yellow throat, breast, and white belly. The adult male has a black facial mask bordered above and behind by a whitish-grey band, his belly is white, as is his rump.

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Females are similar in appearance to the male, though they have paler underparts and lack the male’s black mask.

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Juvenile birds are similar in appearance to adult females.

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The Common Yellowthroat is the only migratory species in the yellowthroat group, and breeds over much of North America.

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In its natural range, the Common yellowthroat can be found in bushes, rushes, and other low-cover areas beside marshes, pools, and streams. It can also be found in regenerating wooded areas, woodland edges, pastures, and roadsides.

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These birds are mainly insectivorous, feeding in leaves for larvae of grasshoppers and beetles, etc. Though it will sometimes take seeds.

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Common yellowthroats like to nest on or near the ground, this being the case they usually nest in a clump of grass, reeds, bullrushes, weeds, or low scrub. It’s a loose bulky cup shape made solely by the female with a variety of materials including grasses, sedges, bark, ferns, rootlets, and hair. It’s lined with fine black rootlets and fine grasses. She lays 3 to 5 brown eggs with black spots within, which she incubates for about 12 days. However, both parents tend to the young which leave the nest 8 to 10 days after hatching.

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You can watch and listen to this bird right here in the video below:

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His Pale Blue Breast Contrasts With Electric Yellows, Oranges, And Greens Creating Unbelievable Rainbow Suit Of Color!

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