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.
Close up male Yellow Warbler
Title: Close up male Yellow Warbler
Location: Little Emigration Canyon, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Fledgling Yellow Warbler and missed prey
Title: Fledgling Yellow Warbler and missed prey
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Fledgling Yellow Warbler begging to be fed by a male
Title: Fledgling Yellow Warbler begging to be fed by a male
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Fledgling Yellow Warbler all fluffed up
Title: Fledgling Yellow Warbler all fluffed up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Fledgling Yellow Warbler cleaning its bill
Title: Fledgling Yellow Warbler cleaning its bill
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Female Yellow Warbler in a thicket
Title: Female Yellow Warbler in a thicket
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Male Yellow Warbler shining brightly in the willows
Title: Male Yellow Warbler shining brightly in the willows
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 7/1/2018
Yellow Warbler male close up
Title: Yellow Warbler male close up
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2018
Male Yellow Warbler with prey in his bill
Title: Male Yellow Warbler with prey in his bill
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2018
Male Yellow Warbler singing on an old branch
Title: Male Yellow Warbler singing on an old branch
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/21/2018
Fluffed up adult Yellow Warbler in a Chokecherry
Title: Fluffed up adult Yellow Warbler in a Chokecherry
Location: Wasatch Mountains, Summit County, Utah
Date: 6/10/2018
Male Yellow Warbler hanging from an aspen
Title: Male Yellow Warbler hanging from an aspen
Location: Uinta Mountains, Uinta National Forest, Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/31/2018
Yellow Warbler in Willows
Title: Yellow Warbler in Willows
Location: Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/24/2018
Foraging male Yellow Warbler
Title: Foraging male Yellow Warbler
Location: Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/17/2018
Yellow Warbler male in the mountains
Title: Yellow Warbler male in the mountains
Location: Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/17/2018
Male Yellow Warbler perched on a tree
Title: Male Yellow Warbler perched on a tree
Location: Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/17/2018
Lil bit of sunshine – Perched Yellow Warbler
Title: Lil bit of sunshine – Perched Yellow Warbler
Location: Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/17/2018
Male Yellow Warbler foraging
Title: Male Yellow Warbler foraging
Location: Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/17/2018
Male Yellow Warbler hanging upside down from a Hawthorn
Title: Male Yellow Warbler hanging upside down from a Hawthorn
Location: Summit County, Utah
Date: 5/17/2018
Yellow Warbler perched on a flowering, thorny tree
Title: Yellow Warbler perched on a flowering, thorny tree
Location: East Canyon, Morgan County, Utah
Date: 5/15/2018