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 with tilted head
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler with tilted head
Location: East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2018
Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in a flowering, thorny tree
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler foraging in a flowering, thorny tree
Location: East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2018
Juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler begging
Title: Juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler begging
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Perched female Northern Yellow Warbler
Title: Perched female Northern Yellow Warbler
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Bedraggled juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler
Title: Bedraggled juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a tree
Title: Juvenile Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Northern Yellow Warbler fledgling begging from a willow
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler fledgling begging from a willow
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Female Northern Yellow Warbler feeding her young
Title: Female Northern Yellow Warbler feeding her young
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Hungry Northern Yellow Warbler fledgling begging to be fed
Title: Hungry Northern Yellow Warbler fledgling begging to be fed
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Female Northern Yellow Warbler watching her young
Title: Female Northern Yellow Warbler watching her young
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Fledgling Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a tree
Title: Fledgling Northern Yellow Warbler perched in a tree
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 7/31/2017
Male Northern Yellow Warbler on a flowering shrub
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler on a flowering shrub
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 6/6/2017
Northern Yellow Warbler about to take flight
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler about to take flight
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2017
Northern Yellow Warbler in the Wasatch Mountains
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler in the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2017
Male Northern Yellow Warbler and aspens
Title: Male Northern Yellow Warbler and aspens
Location: Cascade Springs, Wasatch National Forest, Wasatch County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2015
Northern Yellow Warbler – Small in the Frame
Title: Northern Yellow Warbler – Small in the Frame
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/4/2013