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Mangrove Warbler

Setophaga petechia · Family Parulidae

Setophaga petechia

Family Parulidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Parulidae
GBIF occurrence records
7,065,783
Countries and territories with records
64
Mangrove Warbler
Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · Dendroica petechia 2446949099.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Niels Krabbe · Setophaga_petechia_-_Mangrove_Warbler_XC243089.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 7,065,783 occurrence records from 64 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (69.9%), Canada (19.3%), Costa Rica (2.3%) and Mexico (2.2%); together they account for 93.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.44% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Setophaga petechia combines the genus name Setophaga with the species epithet petechia. 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 ruticilla and Setophaga americana.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 117 species of the family Parulidae. This species ranks 3rd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Setophaga coronata. Its record count is 10.1 times the family average (702,186). The family Parulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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