Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia)

A colorful male Yellow Warbler poses for a portrait in all its bright elegance.

Facts: Yellow Warblers have an extraordinarily broad distribution for a warbler species and show great geographical variation. More than 40 recognized subspecies form three general groups that range from the northern limits of shrubby habitat in Canada to northern South America. The familiar northern Yellow Warbler (the aestiva group of subspecies) breeds from Alaska to Newfoundland and southern Labrador south to western South Carolina and northern Georgia, and west sporadically through the Southwest to the Pacific Coast. This form is highly migratory and winters in Central America and the West Indies south to northern Peru.