Yellow-throated Warbler (Dendroica dominica), Tucson, Pima County

This Yellow-throated Warbler was discovered by Judy Calvert , Mort Womack and Linda Phelan on 13 April 2011 in Tucson a couple of blocks E of the University of Arizona.  It was photographed by Mort Womack the same day and by Philip Kline on 14 April 2011.

Yellow-throated Warbler is a casual transient with about 20 records, although there has been an increase in records in the last few years.

Note the yellow throat, black auriculars with white spot behind them and the white eyeline. This bird is of the western D. d. albilora race. This race has a white or pale yellow supraloral stripe (the part of the white eyebrow near the bill) whereas the other races of D. dominica have bright yellow supraloral stripes.

11 April 0013, photo by Mort Womack

14 April 2011, photo by Philip Kline

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