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.
Northern Yellow Warbler female looking up into a River Hawthorn tree
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler female looking up into a River Hawthorn tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2020
Female Northern Yellow Warbler searching for prey on a Hawthorn
Title: Female Northern Yellow Warbler searching for prey on a Hawthorn
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2020
Female Northern Yellow Warbler foraging for prey in new Hawthorn leaves
Title: Female Northern Yellow Warbler foraging for prey in new Hawthorn leaves
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2020
Northern Yellow Warbler female perched sideways with prey in her bill
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler female perched sideways with prey in her bill
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/12/2020
Male Northern Yellow Warbler tucked into some willows
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler tucked into some willows
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/6/2020
Northern Yellow Warbler in a thicket of willows
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler in a thicket of willows
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/21/2019
Male Northern Yellow Warbler with a stubby tail
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler with a stubby tail
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/4/2019
Adult Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched in morning light
Title: Adult Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched in morning light
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2019
Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched among willows gone to seed
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler perched among willows gone to seed
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/18/2019
Alert Northern Yellow Warbler male perched in a willow
Title: Alert Northern Yellow Warbler male perched in a willow
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/18/2019
Male Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in willow catkins
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in willow catkins
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019
Male Northern Yellow Warbler in the peak of breeding season
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler in the peak of breeding season
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019
Plump Northern Yellow Warbler male up close
Title: Plump Northern Yellow Warbler male up close
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/4/2019
Spring Northern Yellow Warbler female close up
Title: Spring Northern Yellow Warbler female close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2019
Male Northern Yellow Warbler checking out his territory
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler checking out his territory
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2019
Male Northern Yellow Warbler belting out a song in a hawthorn
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler belting out a song in a hawthorn
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/20/2019
First of year Northern Yellow Warbler
Title: First of year Northern Yellow Warbler
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/10/2019
Northern Yellow Warbler framed by serviceberry berries
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler framed by serviceberry berries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/26/2018
Northern Yellow Warbler with a dark background
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler with a dark background
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2018
Northern Yellow Warbler with a curious look
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler with a curious look
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2018