Bird of the Week – Yellow Warbler
Widespread in Alaska – WC has seen them as far north as the Canning River on the north side of the Brooks Range – and conspicuous, the Yellow Warbler is one of the easier birds to identify among summer migrants.
Yellow Warbler Female, Creamer’s Refuge, Fairbanks
In breeding season, the male has strong, longitudinal orange streaking on his breast; the female’s are fainter. Of all of Alaska’s warblers, the Yellow Warbler is most often out in the open and most easily seen.
WC has heard them called “Wild Canaries.” Other than being yellow birds, they have no relationship to true canaries.
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I haven’t seen these around my place being urban Anchorage until this summer and then there were plenty of them. One got into the mew of a owl I caretake while I had him out. When I was putting the owl back I noticed it when it noticed us. We were blocking the doorway as it franticly looked for another way out. The owls head just zig zaged back and forth following it until I turned sideways in the doorway and it shot past us.
These sweet birds are hard to photograph. By the time I have one framed it flies away. They like to stay hidden under foliage, even around the feeder.
They are such pretty birds !
As common as they are supposed to be in my part of Alaska I don’t see them very often .
Too much forest all around probably?