Tennessee Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

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.

● 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