Virginia's Warbler

Virginia's Warblers are small wood-warblers. Adult male breeding plumage is primarily gray, paler on underparts, narrow white eye-ring, yellow breast and undertail-coverts, and a rufous patch on their crown. Adult breeding females are similar to males, but have a smaller rufous crown patch and paler yellow area on breast. Basic-plumaged immatures have sides and flanks strongly washed buff, yellow area on the breast varying from extensive to very little (males) or from very little to none (females), and rufous crown-patch limited to one to two orangish feathers or absent (females).

References cited in Species Profile

• Bailey, F. M. 1928. Birds of New Mexico. New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish, printed by Judd and Detweiler, Inc. Washington, D.C.
• Fischer, J. M. 1978. A natural history study of the Virginia's Warbler (Vermivora virginiae) in the Ponderosa Pine community. Master's Thesis. Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff.
• Horton, S. P. 1987. Effects of prescribed burning on breeding birds in a ponderosa pine forest, Southeastern Arizona. Master's Thesis. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson.
• Hutto, R. L. 1980. Winter Habitat Distribution of migrant landbirds in Western Mexico, with special reference to small foliage-gleaning insectivores. Pages 181-204 in Migrant birds in the neotropics: ecology, behavior, distribution and conservation. (Keast, A. and E. S. Morton, Eds.) Smithson. Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.
• Hutto, R. L. 1992. Habitat distributions of migratory landbird species in Western Mexico.Pages 211-239 in Ecology and conservation of neotropical landbirds. (Hagan III, J. M. and D. W. Johnson, Eds.) Smithson. Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.
• Olson, Christopher R. and Thomas E. Martin. 1999. Virginia's Warbler (Oreothlypis virginiae), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/477