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Northern Yellow Warbler
Reinita Amarilla
Setophaga aestiva
The Northern Yellow Warbler (Setophaga aestiva) is a small migratory New World warbler. Males are bright yellow with chestnut streaking on the breast; females and immatures are duller, with warm yellow plumage and an unmarked face. It breeds from Alaska and Canada through much of the United States to south-central Mexico, especially in willows, wet thickets, riparian scrub, and other open wooded habitats, and winters from Mexico and Central America into northern South America. In Puerto Rico it is an accidental or vagrant species, distinct from the resident Caribbean populations now placed in Mangrove Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia).
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Sound recorded by Scott Olmstead · XC1141304 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Visualization by Stichting Xeno-canto voor Natuurgeluiden.
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About the Northern Yellow Warbler
The Northern Yellow Warbler (Setophaga aestiva) is a small migratory New World warbler. Males are bright yellow with chestnut streaking on the breast; females and immatures are duller, with warm yellow plumage and an unmarked face. It breeds from Alaska and Canada through much of the United States to south-central Mexico, especially in willows, wet thickets, riparian scrub, and other open wooded habitats, and winters from Mexico and Central America into northern South America. In Puerto Rico it is an accidental or vagrant species, distinct from the resident Caribbean populations now placed in Mangrove Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia).
Conservation
Not assessed or unresolved
Global and Puerto Rico-specific conservation references are kept separate in this compilation.
- Global IUCN
- NE
- Puerto Rico DNER
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Federal ESA
- No current listing in source crosswalk
- Critical habitat
- Not identified in source crosswalk
Natural history
How it lives
- Habitat
- shrublands
- Elevation
- 0–2700 m
- Nest
- Cup / bowl · Tree
- Clutch
- 1–6 eggs
- Social behavior
- Social / flocking; Pairs / family groups
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Research note: Northern Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva was split from Mangrove Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia in eBird/Clements 2025; this profile follows the current Northern taxon.