Dominica Botanic Gardens Roseau, Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies

Source: Dominica's Birds Photo: Curt Given Photo: Jim Nicolson

Description:: About 11-13 cm (4.5 – 5 in) long; body predominantly yellow, including yellow-green wings, yellow wing bars, and yellow spotted tail; but plummage tends to more grey in more temperate climates; male has reddish brown streaks on breast; eyes black with thin yellow eye ring; bill short, thin and pointed; tail short and legs yellowish; feeds on small insects; a year round resident in Dominica, but is also partly migratory, so numbers increase around Christmas when passage migrants arrive, hence local name, Titin-noel (noel for Christmas); seen variously throughout Gardens. References: Arlington James, Stephen Durand and Bertrand Jno.Baptiste. Dominica’s Birds. Forestry, Wildlife and Parks Division, Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, Dominica, 2005 Yellow Warbler: Dendroica petechia. Bird Watcher's Digest, Marietta, Ohio, n.d. (birdwatchersdigest.com) G.A. Gough, J.R. Sauer and M. Iliff. Patuxent Bird Identification Infocenter. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, US Geological Survey, Laurel, MD. 2000 (mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov)