Yellow Warbler Images

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.

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