![]() © 2016 Tune In to January 2014/2018/2019/2023 Narrator: Michael SteinĪdapted with permission from Bryan Pfeiffer's “The Winter Warbler.” Visit Bryan's blog at. Wind Nature Essentials #02 recorded by Gordon Hempton, of īirdNote’s theme music was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler. Andersen calls of Yellow-rumped Warbler recorded by D.S. Calls of Yellow-rumped Warbler recorded by M. You can share this show with a friend when you come to .īird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Particularly along the Atlantic coast, birders, in a day, might find butterbutts in the hundreds - abundance unlike any wintering warbler in North America. The Yellow-rump’s gastrointestinal talents probably account for its ability to inhabit a winter range farther north than its relatives. Though the color palette is subdued all winter, you owe it to yourself to seek these birds out on their spring migration or on their breeding grounds. Shrubs and trees fill with the streaky brown-and-yellow birds and their distinctive, sharp chips. To do so, it appears that Yellow-rumps possess elevated levels of bile salts, which aid digestion of saturated fats. Yellow-rumped Warblers are impressive in the sheer numbers with which they flood the continent each fall. Yellow-rumped Warblers are fairly large, full-bodied warblers with a large head, sturdy bill, and long, narrow tail. With insects in short supply, the Yellow-rump turns to fruit: juniper, viburnums, and mountain ash.īut this warbler’s greatest dietary feat is that it also eats the fruits of bayberry and wax myrtle - the raw materials of folksy candles. In winter, when most of their kin are enjoying insects in the tropics, Yellow-rumps are finding food across parts of the West, the southern U.S. One of the most wide-ranging of North American warbler species, the yellow-rump, affectionately known as the butter butt, breeds across the entire continent. But the Yellow-rumped Warbler, which birders affectionately call “butterbutt” is a lesson in adaptation. This is the most common warbler species observed in residential settings, and can be very abundant, with several warblers present in a very small area. ![]() īy now most warblers have migrated south. Behavior: Like other warbler species Yellow-rumped Warbler are very busy and active, as they flit about in the foliage of trees and shrubs searching for insects. Discover this songbird's buttery warmth, even when life outside seems to groan or crunch or crack in the cold. It’s an aster in winter, sun through the clouds - a force of nature called the Yellow-rumped Warbler. Vermont field naturalist and writer, Bryan Pfeiffer, writes today’s story: Yellow-Rumped Warbler - The Winter WarblerĪdapted from a Vermont birding blog by Bryan Pfeiffer
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