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 looking up into the sky
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler looking up into the sky
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2018
Immature Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in a Cocklebur
Title: Immature Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in a Cocklebur
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/19/2018
Immature Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a Cocklebur
Title: Immature Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a Cocklebur
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/19/2018
Tiny Northern Yellow Warbler in a big world
Title: Tiny Northern Yellow Warbler in a big world
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/14/2018
August Northern Yellow Warbler
Title: August Northern Yellow Warbler
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/10/2018
Messy male Northern Yellow Warbler
Title: Messy male Northern Yellow Warbler
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/10/2018
Northern Yellow Warbler on a branch
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler on a branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/10/2018
Perched Northern Yellow Warbler and serviceberry bush up close
Title: Perched Northern Yellow Warbler and serviceberry bush up close
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/8/2018
Adult Northern Yellow Warbler on a serviceberry bush
Title: Adult Northern Yellow Warbler on a serviceberry bush
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/8/2018
Immature Northern Yellow Warbler feeding on serviceberries
Title: Immature Northern Yellow Warbler feeding on serviceberries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/5/2018
Immature Northern Yellow Warbler and serviceberry berries
Title: Immature Northern Yellow Warbler and serviceberry berries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/5/2018
Male Northern Yellow Warbler in a hawthorn tree
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler in a hawthorn tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/11/2018
Perky Northern Yellow Warbler male
Title: Perky Northern Yellow Warbler male
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/11/2018
Male Northern Yellow Warbler foraging on the ground
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler foraging on the ground
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/11/2018
Northern Yellow Warbler male on a thin branch
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler male on a thin branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/11/2018
Fledgling Northern Yellow Warbler searching for food
Title: Fledgling Northern Yellow Warbler searching for food
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/2/2018
Fledgling Northern Yellow Warbler foraging on its own
Title: Fledgling Northern Yellow Warbler foraging on its own
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/2/2018
Northern Yellow Warbler fledgling looking for food
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler fledgling looking for food
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/2/2018
Close male Northern Yellow Warbler perched in willows and sunlight
Title: Close male Northern Yellow Warbler perched in willows and sunlight
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Curious look from a close male Northern Yellow Warbler
Title: Curious look from a close male Northern Yellow Warbler
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018