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Range Map for Northern Yellow Warbler

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Long distance migrant. Northern 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, Northern Yellow Warblers from eastern North America fly across the Gulf of Mexico in a single nonstop journey; some Northern Yellow Warblers in fall take an overland route around the Gulf.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology (2025) Distribution map for Northern Yellow Warbler Setophaga aestiva. Modified accounting for taxonomic differences from BirdLife International and Handbook of the Birds of the World (2021) Bird species distribution maps of the world. Version 2021.1.

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