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Nashville Warbler

Vermivora ruficapillaOrder: PASSERIFORMESFamily: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)
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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