These are probably the best known and most frequently encountered wood warblers. Although variable, all yellow-rumped warblers possess a bright yellow rump, which is shared with only 2 other species.

The migration usually lasts until early- to mid-May, about the time the other dozen-plus species of warblers common in Kansas arrive on their way northward. The yellow band at the base of their ...

which gives away their identification as yellow-rumped warblers. The birds migrate here for the winter from breeding grounds in coniferous forests across the northern tier of the U.S. and Canada.