Setophaga petechia
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In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The mangrove warbler or mangrove yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia) 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 (Setophaga aestiva).
The mangrove warbler was formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla petechia. The specific epithet petechia is from the Italian word petecchia "a small red spot on the skin". Linnaeus based his account on the "yellow-red pole" that had been described and illustrated in 1758 by the English naturalist George Edwards in his book Gleanings of Natural History. Edwards had obtained a specimen from the midwife Sidney Kennon. Edwards was unsure of the provenance of the specimen but in 1935 the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr designated the island of Barbados. The mangrove warbler is now placed in the genus Setophaga that was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Managua | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | |
| 2 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 3 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 4 | San Pedro Sula | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 5 | Tijuana | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 6 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 7 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 8 | Montreal | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 9 | Tegucigalpa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 10 | Edmonton | 🇨🇦 Canada |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Warbler sighting in Death Valley National Park on a given day, based on 278 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 31st most-seen of the 213 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and September
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Warbler in Death Valley National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–March and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow Warbler sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
39th of 105
Of the 105 parks where we can rate Yellow Warbler sightings, Death Valley National Park ranks 39th at about 20%. The best odds are in Galápagos Islands (Ecuador, about 80%), Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park (Mexico, about 80%) and Point Pelee National Park (Canada, about 70%). All parks ranked.
Same genus: Setophaga
The closest relatives of the Yellow Warbler that you can see in Death Valley National Park (genus Setophaga, Setophaga Warblers) are Yellow-rumped Warbler (about 60%), Northern Yellow Warbler (about 10%) and Black-throated Gray Warbler (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow Warbler is recorded against all the birds logged in Death Valley National Park (278 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
