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Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)Where and when to see it in the UK

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

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

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)
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-rumped 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-rumped Warbler has been recorded in 15 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in March.

Conservation status: Not Evaluated (IUCN Red List, NE)
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Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
NS34North Ayrshire, Scotland1132024unverified
NS24North Ayrshire, Scotland12024unverified
HU32Shetland Islands, Scotland442022unverified
SV91Isles of Scilly, England82022unverified
SM72Pembrokeshire, Wales32019unverified
NF77Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland12019unverified
SM70Pembrokeshire, Wales12017unverified
NZ23County Durham, England182014unverified
NZ33County Durham, England172014unverified
NZ24County Durham, England132014unverified
HU40Shetland Islands, Scotland52014unverified
NZ34County Durham, England22014unverified
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland12014unverified
HY75Sea, off Orkney Islands12014unverified
HY32Orkney Islands, Scotland12003unverified

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