Common Yellowthroat    Geothlypis trichas

Conservation Status

General Status in Canada : Secure

COSEWIC Status : Not assessed

The Common Yellowthroat has experienced range-wide population declines in recent decades based on results from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). As the species prefers dense, shrubby vegetation, the draining and conversion of wetlands for agricultural and urban development may be responsible for these declines. Loss of habitat on the wintering grounds, largely through similar conversions of wetland habitat, may also be responsible for these observed declines.

Reference(s)

Guzy, M. J., and G. Ritchison. 1999. Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas), The Birds of North America, No. 448. A. Poole and F. Gill, eds. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists's Union, Washington, D.C.