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Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
First warbler to arrive in spring and last to leave, the Yellow-rumped Warbler handles our weather and food sources more readily than any other. It has a large breeding range from Alaska to Newfoundland and south to Mexico in the west. The western Yellow-rumped Warblers winter from portions of extreme southern Canada south through the US, Central America, and the Caribbean to northern South America. This species was formerly considered two full species: Myrtle Warbler and Audubon's Warbler.
Yellow-rumped Warblers (Myrtle subspecies) are the generalists of the warbler family, occurring in almost every type and age of mixed or coniferous forest in the province. During migration they can be found almost everywhere, including sites nearly devoid of tree cover. The Audubon subspecies is a summer resident in the higher-elevation coniferous forests of the Cypress Hills, possibly preferring stands of lodgepole pine.
The Myrtle subspecies breeds from the boreal mixedwood forest through the Canadian Shield to the northern taiga and is probably the most abundant warbler in the province. It is "the only spruce-loving warbler that regularly nests in conifer plantations south of its breeding range? (Smith 1996). The Audubon's subspecies breeds locally in the Cypress Hills (Smith 1996), but there are at least 30 spring and 8 fall records of Audubon's north to Maidstone, Prince Albert National Park and east to Regina (SBDB).
Original text by Enid E. Cumming. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Yellow-rumped Warbler in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Yellow-rumped Warbler in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=YRWA&lang=en [09 Nov 2025]
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