Northern Yellow Warbler Images, Facts and Information:
Changed from Yellow Warbler to Northern Yellow Warbler in October 2025
Setophaga aestiva used to be Setophaga petechia
- Northern Yellow Warblers are small, uniformly yellow warblers with unmarked faces, rounded heads, tiny bills and jet black eyes. The males have reddish streaks on their underparts.
- Northern Yellow Warblers are migratory. During the breeding season Yellow Warblers can be found as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as southern Mexico, they spend winters in Central and South America.
- Their preferred habitats include thickets, marsh edges, swamps, willow edged streams, bogs, farmlands, forest edges and suburban gardens.
- Northern Yellow Warblers eat spiders, insects and will also eat berries. They forage by gleaning.
- Northern Yellow Warblers lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 11 to 12 days, the females incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of Northern Yellow Warblers can be called a “stream” or “trepidation” of warblers.
- Northern Yellow Warblers can live to be more than 11 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Northern Yellow Warbler photos.
Male Northern Yellow Warbler peering out from a willow
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler peering out from a willow
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 8/15/2023
Male Northern Yellow Warbler poking around a serviceberry
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler poking around a serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/21/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched high in a serviceberry
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched high in a serviceberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/21/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler and willow branches
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler and willow branches
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/3/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler and willow leaves
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler and willow leaves
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/3/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler looking out from willow leaves
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler looking out from willow leaves
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/3/2022
Female Northern Northern Yellow Warbler with food for her young
Title: Female Northern Northern Yellow Warbler with food for her young
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/17/2022
Low light adult male Northern Yellow Warbler taking a break
Title: Low light adult male Northern Yellow Warbler taking a break
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/17/2022
Inquisitive young Northern Yellow Warbler in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Inquisitive young Northern Yellow Warbler in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Cute juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler in the mountains
Title: Cute juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler in the mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Northern Yellow Warbler chick in patchy juvenal plumage
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler chick in patchy juvenal plumage
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/8/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler with food for his young
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler with food for his young
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler peering out of a willow thicket
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler peering out of a willow thicket
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler singing in a willow thicket
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler singing in a willow thicket
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a willow thicket
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a willow thicket
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/16/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler and a bright blue sky
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler and a bright blue sky
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/15/2022
Low light male Northern Yellow Warbler
Title: Low light male Northern Yellow Warbler
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/9/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler singing in low light
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler singing in low light
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/9/2022
Male Northern Yellow Warbler and serviceberry blossoms
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler and serviceberry blossoms
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2022
Northern Yellow Warbler female in her nest with nesting materials
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler female in her nest with nesting materials
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/25/2022