Orange-crowned Warbler
Oreothlypis celata

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Parulidae
Genus: Oreothlypis

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Description

Length: 4.3-5.5 in (11-14 cm) Weight: 0.2-0.4 oz (7-11 g) Wingspan: 7.5 in (19 cm)

A medium sized warbler with swarthy olive-green back, a brighter yellow on rump and upper-tail coverts, with crown and hind-neck slightly grayer. The crown has a brownish-orange patch, usually concealed. The eyes are black surrounded by partial whitish or yellow eye-ring, separated by dark eye-line. The underparts are greenish-yellow, and faintly streaked through the chest to the belly.

Habitat, Range, and Feeding

The Orange-crowned has a wide range for it's breeding grounds, mostly brushy and open deciduous woodlands, shrub thickets, mixed woods and coniferous forest edges, and abundant in harvested forests. They winter in similar habitat.

They build nests and start the first brood from mid-march to late Junes, depending on localtion. The nests are constructed on or near the ground in low bushes, vines, and herbaceous vegetation. The female builds the nest out of leaves and fine twigs, plant down, bark, rootlets, weeds, moss, often sheep wool, for the cup, and lined with finer dry grass, mosses, fur of small animals or elk/horse hair arranged in circular pattern. The clutch size is 3 to 6 eggs, that are whitish with reddish brown speckles consitrated on the large end. The incubation period is 14 days, and they fledge in 11 to 13 days.

Their diet is insects and spiders.