Black-throated Green Warbler

About the Black-throated Green Warbler

The Black-throated Green Warbler pairs an olive-green back with a glowing yellow face and, on males, a solid black throat and upper breast that trails into streaks along the flanks. Females show less black but the same unmistakable golden face.

Its buzzy song - zee-zee-zee-zoo-zee - is among the most easily learned warbler songs, and males sing persistently, even in migration. The species breeds in northern and Appalachian conifer forests and gleans caterpillars, insects, and spiders from mid-level branches.

Texas sees Black-throated Green Warblers in good numbers in both spring and fall, in coastal oak mottes and wooded stopover habitat statewide; a few linger into early winter in the southern part of the state.