Hooded warbler Wilsonia citrina
Identification Tips:
Length: 4.5 inches
Small, insect-eating bird
Thin, pointed bill
Yellow face and underparts
Olive upperparts
Pink legs
Considerable amount of white in outer tail feathers ...
Hooded Warbler
Wilsonia citrina
The Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina) is a breeding species across much of the eastern United States. It winters in the tropics.
Hooded Warblers are normally found deep in the forest undergrowth of the eastern United States, although they will often call attention to themselves by fanning their tails and exposing the white outer tail feather spots.
Hooded Warbler Behaviour
No observations regarding Hooded Warbler behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Hooded Warblers ...
Hooded Warbler
(Wilsonia citrina)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 1999
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Hooded Warbler
Wilsonia citrina (Boddaert)
Status Rare vagrant.
Hooded Warbler
Photo from the Breeding Bird Survey page
Last updated 3/16/96
Male Hooded Warblers are unmistakable. The black hood completely encircles the yellow face. The female is very similar to a female Wilson's Warbler.
Grey-hooded Warbler (Seicercus xanthoschistos) is a local resident in Himalayas and north-east India. Size: 10 cm ...
The Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina) is striking with its black hood and yellow face and forehead. The tail is white below and the outer tail feathers are also white in both male and female. The female and young do not have the hood.
Hooded Warbler
Spring Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Kentucky Warbler
Spring Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
A bird in a Halifax garden on 2 April 1974 (W.J. Mills) and another (with an equally untimely Hooded Warbler and Northern Waterthrush) on Sable Island on 6 April 1984 were abnormally early.
During the breeding season, the Hooded Warbler occurs in appropriate habitat throughout most of the eastern United States, except in the alluvial valley of the Mississippi River, where it is rare.
SYLVIA MITRATA, Bonap. Syn., p. 79.
HOODED WARBLER, Sylvia mitrata, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 66. Adult Male and Female; vol. v. p. 465.
SELBY'S FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa Selbyii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 46. Young.
Hooded Warbler, Wilsonia citrina
Wilson's Warbler, Wilsonia pusilla
Canada Warbler, Wilsonia canadensis
Red-faced Warbler, Cardellina rubrifrons
Painted Redstart, Myioborus pictus
Slate-throated Redstart, Myioborus miniatus (C) ...
 See also: Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Redstart, Yellowthroat
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