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title: "Mangrove Yellow Warbler"
description: "Setophaga petechia — Birds. The mangrove warbler or mangrove yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia) is a New World warbler species."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/mangrove-yellow-warbler
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Mangrove Yellow Warbler

> Setophaga petechia — Birds. The mangrove warbler or mangrove yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia) is a New World warbler species.

- Scientific name: *Setophaga petechia*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 7693
- Wikidata: [Q21962227](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21962227)
- iNaturalist taxon: [145238](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/145238)

## Names

- en: Mangrove Yellow Warbler
- de: Gold-Waldsänger
- es: Chipe amarillo
- fr: Paruline des mangroves
- pt: Mariquita-amarela / mariquita-dos-mangais
- pl: Lasówka złotawa

## Countries with the most observations

EC (3213), MX (1159), CR (252), PA (204), US (199), PR (163), CW (159), GP (126), AW (115), KY (101), MQ (101), BZ (84)

## Summary

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).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangrove_warbler

## Photo

![Mangrove Yellow Warbler](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mangrove-yellow-warbler/medium.jpg)

Photo: Dario Taraborelli · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153410801

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mangrove-yellow-warbler?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).