Common Yellowthroat

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Parulidae

Genus

Geothlypis

eBird Code

comyel

Subspecies (13)

• Geothlypis trichas arizela

  breeds far southeastern Alaska to south-central California; winters to southern Baja California and northern Sonora

• Geothlypis trichas campicola

  breeds western Canada and southeastern Alaska to northwestern USA; winters to northern Mexico

• Geothlypis trichas chapalensis

  northwestern Mexico (Lake Chapala region of Jalisco)

• Geothlypis trichas chryseola

  southwestern to south-central USA and west-central Mexico

• Geothlypis trichas ignota

  coastal southeastern South Carolina to southern Florida, southern Mississippi, and southeastern Louisiana

• Geothlypis trichas insperata

  southern Texas (Rio Grande Valley below Brownsville)

• Geothlypis trichas melanops

  central Mexico (Zacatecas and northern Jalisco to Oaxaca and Veracruz)

• Geothlypis trichas modesta

  western Mexico

• Geothlypis trichas occidentalis

  breeds northern Oregon to New Mexico and northwestern Texas; winters to Honduras

• Geothlypis trichas scirpicola

  southern California to Nevada, southwestern Utah, northern Baja California, and far northwestern Sonora

• Geothlypis trichas sinuosa

  saltwater marshes from San Francisco to San Diego

• Geothlypis trichas trichas

  breeds southeastern Canada and east-central USA; winters to West Indies and northern South America

• Geothlypis trichas typhicola

  breeds southeastern USA; winters to southeastern Mexico (Veracruz)