Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada (B), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (NB), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).
Vagrant to French Polynesia, Grenada, St Pierre and Miquelon (P).
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 1,400,000 (2010).
Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor) [XC33532]
by Andrew Spencer from Buffalo Creek, Ouachita NF, Scott Co., Arkansas, United States (song)
Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor) [XC192535]
by Dan Lane from Scrub Ridge Trail, Merritt Island NWR, Brevard County, Florida, United States (call, flight call)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Vitelline Warbler (Setophaga vitellina) and sometimes regarded as conspecific, although such treatment not supported by recent phylogenetic study.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
discolor (Vieillot, 1809) - Breeds south-eastern Canada (south-eastern Ontario) and eastern USA eastern from south-eastern Iowa, eastern Kansas and eastern Texas and southern from extreme southern Maine (but excluding southern coastal areas and most of Florida and Mississippi Valley; isolated population in north-western Michigan); migrates to peninsular Florida, Caribbean and islands off coast (also small numbers on adjacent mainland) of central Middle America.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet