Tennessee Warbler

Vermivora peregrinaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Breeding Location:

Forest edge, Marshes, freshwater, Swamps

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Fairly common

Egg Color:

White to creamy white with brown splotches

Number of Eggs:

4 - 7

Incubation Days:

11 - 12

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

Dired grasses and moss, with lining of fine grasses, stems and hair.

Migration:

Migratory

Overview

Tennessee Warbler: Small warbler with olive-green upperparts, white underparts, and olive-gray washed sides. Darker head has white eyebrows and dark eyestripes. Wings are plain gray. Tail is short. It spends the summers in Canada and is only found in Tennessee during migration. Eats mostly insects.

Range and Habitat

Tennessee Warbler: Breeds from Yukon, Manitoba, and Labrador south to British Columbia, Wisconsin, southern Ontario, and Maine. Spends winters in the tropics. Preferred habitats include open mixed woodlands in the breeding season; trees and bushes during migration.

Breeding and Nesting

Tennessee Warbler: Four to seven brown splotched, white to creamy white eggs are laid in a nest lined with fine grass and built on the ground, usually well hidden under a shrub or in a moss clump under a tussock. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Tennessee Warbler: Diet consists of insects, such as small beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, and aphids, spiders, sumac seeds, and poison ivy berries; also drinks juices from grapes by poking a hole in the fruit with its bill.

Readily Eats

Sugar Water, Fruit, Nut Pieces

Vocalization

Tennessee Warbler: Song is a loud "seet, seet, seet" or "chip, chip, chip."

Similar Species

Tennessee Warbler: Red-eyed Vireo is larger, has red eyes, and thicker bill. Winter Philadelphia Vireo is larger and has thicker bill. Orange-crowned Warbler has yellow undertail coverts and blurry streaks on breast.

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Tennessee Warbler

● Song: "seet-seet-seet", "chip-chip-chip"

● Foraging & Feeding: Tennessee Warbler: Diet consists of insects, such as small beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers, and aphids, spiders, sumac seeds, and poison ivy berries; also drinks juices from grapes by poking a hole in the fruit with its bill.

● Breeding & nesting: Tennessee Warbler: Four to seven brown splotched, white to creamy white eggs are laid in a nest lined with fine grass and built on the ground, usually well hidden under a shrub or in a moss clump under a tussock. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by the female.

● Similar species: Tennessee Warbler: Red-eyed Vireo is larger, has red eyes, and thicker bill. Winter Philadelphia Vireo is larger and has thicker bill. Orange-crowned Warbler has yellow undertail coverts and blurry streaks on breast.

Flight Pattern

Weak fluttering flight with shallow wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Tennessee Warbler: Breeds from Yukon, Manitoba, and Labrador south to British Columbia, Wisconsin, southern Ontario, and Maine. Spends winters in the tropics. Preferred habitats include open mixed woodlands in the breeding season; trees and bushes during migration.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight0.4 Ounces

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