Virginia’s Warbler Images

Virginia’s Warbler Images, Facts and Information:

Leiothlypis virginiae

• Virginia’s Warbler’s are mainly gray in color, with a lighter colored under-bellies and a white eye rings. Their rumps and undertail coverts are yellow. They also have a yellow patch on their breast and a partially hidden dark reddish crest. Females are slightly duller, with less yellow on breast.
• Virginia’s Warbler’s are migratory. They breed in the south-western United States and will migrate as far south as Belize during the winter, as well as stopping in several Caribbean islands such as the Bahamas, Cuba, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Virginia’s Warbler’s prefer habitats that include scrub oak, pinyon-juniper brushlands, and pine and oak woodlands.
• Virginia’s Warbler’s eat mostly insects.
• Virginia’s Warbler’s lay 3 to 5 eggs which hatch in 11 to 12 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
• Groups of warblers can be called a “confusion”, “fall” and “bouquet” of warblers.
• Virginia’s Warbler’s can live to be more than six years of age.

I hope you enjoy viewing my Virginia’s Warbler photos.