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Yellow Warbler (Setophaga aestiva)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks December · New World Warblers · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Yellow Warbler (Setophaga aestiva)
Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Yellow Warbler: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Yellow Warbler has been recorded in 9 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in December.

Conservation status: Not Evaluated (IUCN Red List, NE)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
TQ76Medway, England1552024unverified
TQ66Kent, England32024unverified
TQ75Kent, England12024unverified
HU42Shetland Islands, Scotland202023unverified
NL94Argyll and Bute, Scotland132023unverified
HT93Shetland Islands, Scotland12023unverified
SY66Dorset, England62017unverified
HU31Shetland Islands, Scotland62005unverified
NL69Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland12004unverified

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