#1047 · 🐦 birds
Northern Yellow Warbler
🇳🇱 Gele Zanger ·Setophaga aestiva
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what is it?
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, as well as northern South America.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 87,205 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Northern Yellow Warbler
- Nederlands
- Gele Zanger
- scientific name
- Setophaga aestiva
- class
- Aves
- order
- Passeriformes
- family
- Parulidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 18
- sightings worldwide
- 87,205
- GBIF records in NL
- 2
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Parulidae
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LC 🌍 244.9k seen
#1046 📷 7Common Yellowthroat
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Setophaga palmarum
LC 🌍 58.1k seen
#1062 📷 10American Redstart
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Roodstaart
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LC 🌍 57.4k seen
#1304 📷 8Orange-crowned Warbler
🇳🇱 Groene Zanger
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LC 🌍 57.3k seen
#1065 📷 7Black-and-white Warbler
🇳🇱 Bonte Zanger
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LC 🌍 52.9k seen
#1324 📷 8Wilson's Warbler
🇳🇱 Wilsons Zanger
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LC 🌍 42.1k seen
#1340 📷 10Pine Warbler
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LC 🌍 37.3k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1188207, Wikidata Q12267348, GBIF 8378494, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.