SE Colorado Birding: Common warbler with uncommon beauty

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Common warbler with uncommon beauty

Yellow-rumped Warblers are the most common Warbler in Colo but they are uncommonly beautiful in their fresh breeding (Alternate) plumage. Their bright yellow throats, sides, crowns and rumps are really set off by the black and white on the rest of their bodie parts.

This bird has a white throat which makes it a Myrtle subspecies (Audubon's subspecies have yellow throats). This species of warbler is a generalist--it works high, medium and low in trees, sometimes hops down on the ground to eat a tasty morsel, sallies out to catch flying insects and gleans leaves. This beauty was feeding in a cottonwood tree on the Canon City Riverwalk.
SeEtta

Labels: Canon City Riverwalk, Yellow-rumped Warblers

Why bird southeast Colorado?

From our high montane areas to the riparian areas along the Arkansas River as it exits Colorado, southeast Colorado offers birding opportunities for beginners to those serious birders who seek out the less common species. We have great shortgrass and sandsage prairie birding including public areas on the Comanche National Grasslands. We have wetlands including playa lakes (playas are important shallow, depressional wetlands that provide essential habitat for waterfowl and many other bird species). We have small lakes (such as Lake Cheraw north of La Junta)and large lakes (such as John Martin Reservoir that encompasses 35 square miles) that host an impressive diversity of bird species. And we have large expanses of pinyon-juniper woodlands with their special birding opportunities.

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