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Chestnut-sided Warbler

Setophaga pensylvanica · Family Parulidae

Setophaga pensylvanica

Family Parulidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Parulidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,954,187
Countries and territories with records
38
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Bettina Arrigoni · Chestnut-sided Warbler (male) Sabine Woods TX 2018-04-28 07-15-04 (41479720584).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Bettina Arrigoni · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Jonathon Jongsma · Setophaga_pensylvanica_-_Chestnut-sided_Warbler_-_XC101584.ogg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Jonathon Jongsma · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 1,954,187 occurrence records from 38 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (65%), Canada (22%), Costa Rica (8.9%) and Panama (1.2%); together they account for 97.2% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.11% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Setophaga pensylvanica combines the genus name Setophaga with the species epithet pensylvanica. The Warbla app catalog lists 34 species of the genus Setophaga; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Setophaga coronata, Setophaga petechia and Setophaga ruticilla.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 117 species of the family Parulidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Setophaga coronata. Its record count is 2.8 times the family average (702,186). The family Parulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Parulidae

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