Northern Yellow Warbler
Setophaga aestiva
Aves
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Up to 10 yrs
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Pair
- Biome
- Temperate wetland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Common
About
The Northern Yellow Warbler is a small, sunshine-colored songbird found across most of North America, with males showing faint chestnut streaking on the breast. It is the most widespread member of the diverse Setophaga genus, breeding from Alaska to the southern United States.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small clutch of speckled eggs is incubated in a cup nest, turned and kept warm by the parent.
- 2.hatchlingA pink, blind hatchling is fed by its parents in the nest, gaping its bill at every visit.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest, learning to fly and to forage close to its parents.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage and song.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Parulidae
- Genus
- Setophaga
- Species
- Setophaga aestiva