Common Yellowthroat

Geothlypis trichas

Common Yellowthroat photographed by Henry Haas
Cold Spring · May 16, 2025

When to look

Reported most in May, across 7.8M open records.

Records by month. January, 170,513 records. February, 132,250 records. March, 168,915 records. April, 565,285 records. May, 2,362,965 records. June, 1,408,056 records. July, 988,613 records. August, 540,610 records. September, 802,756 records. October, 406,888 records. November, 145,198 records. December, 157,058 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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