Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
- HABITAT - Common Yellowthroat breeds in thick vegetation, especially in marshy areas in a wide spread range from Alaska to Newfoundland south throughout United States. The spend the winters in a wide variety of shrubby habitats of in southern states and in the tropics.
- DIET - Common Yellowthroat feeds mainly on insects, spiders and a few seeds.
- FACTS - Common Yellowthroat flutter through thick, low vegetation and reeds, rarely far above the ground, and heard more often than seen. Its distinctive "witchity-witchity-witchity" sounds like someone trying to start a stubborn engine.
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