Definition of "yellowthroat" []

• Any of several small New World warblers of the genus Geothlypis, especially G. trichas, having a brownish back, yellow throat, and, in the male, a black facial mask. (noun)

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• "The song of the common yellowthroat, a rapid “witchity-witchity-witchity,” gains more syllables in each “witchity” from north to south."
• "There are at least four bird species endemic to the Bahamas islands which may utilize mangrove habitats at times including the Bahama woodstar, white-cheeked pintail, Bahamas swallow and Bahama yellowthroat; although none of them specifically live in mangrove habitat exclusively."
• "The Altimira yellowthroat (Geothlypis flavovelata) may be restricted to this ecoregion, but this is not confirmed."