Yellow Warbler Images, Facts and Information:
Setophaga petechia
- 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. There are other forms of Yellow Warblers found in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Males in those forms have chestnut on their heads.
- 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.
- Yellow Warblers eat spiders, insects and will also eat berries. They forage by gleaning.
- Yellow Warblers lay 3 to 6 eggs which hatch in 11 to 12 days, the females incubate and they are monogamous.
- A group of Yellow Warblers can be called a “stream” or “trepidation” of warblers.
- Yellow warblers can live to be more than 11 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Yellow Warbler photos.
Yellow Warbler perched in front of a hawthorn
Title: Yellow Warbler perched in front of a hawthorn
Location: Wasatch Mountains, East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/27/2020
Yellow Warbler foraging in a hawthorn near a creek
Title: Yellow Warbler foraging in a hawthorn near a creek
Location: Wasatch Mountains, East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/27/2020
Yellow Warbler with a moth in its bill
Title: Yellow Warbler with a moth in its bill
Location: Wasatch Mountains, East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/27/2020
Yellow Warbler and ripe serviceberries
Title: Yellow Warbler and ripe serviceberries
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 8/4/2020
Immature Yellow Warbler lifting off from a thistle
Title: Immature Yellow Warbler lifting off from a thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/23/2020
Immature Yellow Warbler fluttering its wings
Title: Immature Yellow Warbler fluttering its wings
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/23/2020
Immature Yellow Warbler foraging on thistles
Title: Immature Yellow Warbler foraging on thistles
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/23/2020
Immature Yellow Warbler and thistles
Title: Immature Yellow Warbler and thistles
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/23/2020
Immature Yellow Warbler perched on a thistle
Title: Immature Yellow Warbler perched on a thistle
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/23/2020
Scruffy male Yellow Warbler without a tail
Title: Scruffy male Yellow Warbler without a tail
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/20/2020
Yellow Warbler juvenile calling from a Blue Elderberry
Title: Yellow Warbler juvenile calling from a Blue Elderberry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2020
Juvenile Yellow Warbler perching in an elderberry bush
Title: Juvenile Yellow Warbler perching in an elderberry bush
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2020
Fledgling Yellow Warbler waiting to be fed
Title: Fledgling Yellow Warbler waiting to be fed
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2020
Yellow Warbler fledgling in a Blue Elderberry bush
Title: Yellow Warbler fledgling in a Blue Elderberry bush
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2020
Begging Yellow Warbler chick in an elderberry bush
Title: Begging Yellow Warbler chick in an elderberry bush
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/9/2020
Female Yellow Warbler with prey for her chicks
Title: Female Yellow Warbler with prey for her chicks
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/24/2020
Yellow Warbler female foraging in sage
Title: Yellow Warbler female foraging in sage
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2020
Female Yellow Warbler with an open bill
Title: Female Yellow Warbler with an open bill
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2020
Female Yellow Warbler perched in sage
Title: Female Yellow Warbler perched in sage
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/19/2020
Male Yellow Warbler tucked into willows
Title: Male Yellow Warbler tucked into willows
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/2/2020