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The grey-crowned yellowthroat is about 14 cm (5.5 in) long and weighs about 13 to 16 g (0.46 to 0.56 oz). The species is sexually dimorphic. It has a long graduated tail and a stout bill with a visibly curved culmen. Adult males of the nominate subspecies G. p. poliocephala have a mostly olive-gray head with a gray crown, black lores, and white crescents above and below the eye. Their nape, upperparts, wings, and tail are grayish olive-brown. Their throat, breast, and undertail coverts are yellow, their flanks washed with buff, and their belly yellowish white. Voice: The grey-crowned yellowthroat's range-wide song is "a long rich series of varied and jumbled musical phrases". It also has some regional second songs, in Mexico "a series of rich rising and falling whistles" and in Costa Rica "a series of rapidly delivered clear whistled notes accelerating into descending trill".
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When to see the Grey-crowned Yellowthroat
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Grey-crowned Yellowthroat
The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States.
About the Grey-crowned Yellowthroat
The grey-crowned yellowthroat is a species of bird in the family Parulidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist shrubland and heavily degraded former forest.
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Easily confused with
Southern YellowthroatGeothlypis velataThe southern yellowthroat is 13 to 14.3 cm (5.1 to 5.6 in) long and weighs 11 to 17 g (0.39 to 0.60 oz).
Olive-crowned YellowthroatGeothlypis semiflavaThe olive-crowned yellowthroat is 11.1 to 13.5 cm (4.4 to 5.3 in) long and weighs 15.5 to 17.5 g (0.55 to 0.62 oz).
Hooded YellowthroatGeothlypis nelsoniThe hooded yellowthroat is about 13 cm (5.1 in) long and weighs about 10 to 12 g (0.35 to 0.42 oz).
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