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Nashville Warbler

Vermivora ruficapillaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
Nashville Warbler Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Brown-yellow to brown-gray in adults.
  • Head Pattern: Plain, Eyering (complete or broken)
  • Crown Color: Dark Gray
  • Forehead Color: Dark Gray
  • Nape Color: Dark Gray
  • Throat Color: Yellow
  • Cere color: No Data
Nashville Warbler Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 12 cm (4.75 in)
  • Weight: 9 g (0.3 oz)
  • Size: Size 1. Very Small (3 - 5 in)
  • Color: White, Brown, Gray, Yellow, Olive
  • Underparts: Yellow with white coverts.
  • Upperparts: Olive-green
  • Back Pattern: Solid
  • Belly Pattern: Solid
  • Breast Pattern: Solid

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.
  • Wingspan Range: 18-20 cm (7.25-7.75 in)
  • Wing Shape: Rounded-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Olive-green
  • Under Tail: Olive-green
  • Leg Color: Black
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Family Wood Warbler (Parulidae)_blue
Species Vermivora ruficapilla
Length4.75 Inches
Wingspan7.5 Inches

Nashville Warbler

Nashville Warbler: Small warbler, olive-green upperparts, yellow underparts, white lower belly. Small chestnut-brown cap, barely noticeable. Gray hood extends to back, eye-ring is white. Two breeding populations, a mid to northeastern one that doesn't wag its tail, and a Pacific Coast one that does.

● Song: "teebit-teebit-teebit, chipper-chipper-chipper-chipper"

● Foraging & Feeding: Nashville Warbler: Eats mostly insects; forages by gleaning food from foliage, usually in mid-levels of a forest.

● Breeding & nesting: Nashville Warbler: Four or five white to creamy white eggs with small brown spots are laid in a cup of grass, leaves, and roots, lined with pine needles and fine grass, and concealed on the ground at the base of a bush or tussock of grass. Incubation ranges from 11 to 12 days and is carried out by both parents.

● Similar species: Nashville Warbler: Mourning and MacGillivray's warblers lack yellow throats and complete white eye-rings.

Flight Pattern

Weak flight on rapidly beating wings.
Nashville Warbler Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Nashville Warbler: Breeds from British Columbia and northwestern Montana south to central California and central Idaho; and from Manitoba, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, south to Minnesota, northern West Virginia, and western Maryland. Spends winters south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Preferred habitats include thickets in open mixed forests or brushy borders of swamps.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationCommon to fairly common
MigrationMigratory
Weight0.3 Ounces