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Yellow Warbler

Setophaga petechia
YEWA · Parulidae · New World Warblers
Wetland provisional · from species
3heard

The yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia) is a New World warbler species. Yellow warblers are the most widespread species in the diverse genus Setophaga, breeding in almost the whole of North America, the Caribbean, and down to northern South America.

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mean confidence
7–8 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

3Detections
2Days heard
0.65Mean confidence
19 SepFirst heard
20 SepLast heard
3,999Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

19 Sep 20 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home3 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-09-19 10:23
9 s
0.71
2026-09-20 11:52
9 s
0.69
2026-09-20 07:43
9 s
0.56
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 9:30am Archive