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Yellow Warbler

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Yellow Warbler Range Map

Overview
ID info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

Range Map
Sightings Map

Range Map for Yellow Warbler

Migration

Long distance migrant. Yellow Warblers breed across central and northern North America and spend winters in Central America and northern South America. They migrate earlier than most other warblers in both spring and fall. Like many other migrating songbirds, Yellow Warblers from eastern North America fly across the Gulf of Mexico in a single nonstop journey; some Yellow Warblers in fall take an overland route around the Gulf.

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