Mangrove Warbler

Setophaga petechia

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedInvertebratesShrublandCup nestTiny · 10 g

What the Mangrove Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Mangrove Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Call · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Mangrove Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Subsong · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Mangrove Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Gean Carlo Valdés · Song · Islas secas, Panama · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The mangrove warbler is around 13 cm (5.1 in) in length. Apart from the rufous hood of the male, all subspecies are very similar. Females and immature birds have similarly greenish-yellow uppersides and are a duller yellow below. Young males soon acquire breast and, where appropriate, head coloration. Females are somewhat duller, most notably on the head. In all, the remiges and rectrices are blackish olive with yellow edges, sometimes appearing as an indistinct wing-band on the former. The eyes and the short thin beak are dark, while the feet are lighter or darker olive-buff.

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When to see the Mangrove Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Mangrove Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 50 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Faroe Islands.

About the Mangrove Warbler

The mangrove warbler, also known as the mangrove yellow warbler, is a New World warbler species. It a small bright yellow bird that is found in mangroves on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the tropical Americas. It is also present in the Caribbean and on the Galápagos Islands. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the migratory American yellow warbler.

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Easily confused with

Side by side: Mangrove Warbler vs Yellow-rumped Warbler · American Redstart vs Mangrove Warbler · Mangrove Warbler vs Northern Parula · Mangrove Warbler vs Pine Warbler

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