Nashville Warbler

Leiothlypis ruficapilla

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestCup nestTiny · 8 g

What the Nashville Warbler sounds like

Sonogram of the Nashville Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jonathon Jongsma · Song · Bancroft Neighborhood, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Nashville Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jonathon Jongsma · Song · Bancroft Neighborhood, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the Nashville Warbler: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Jonathon Jongsma · Song · Bear Head Lake State Park, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The Nashville warbler is a small warbler. Both male and female Nashville warblers have a gray head fading into a greenish back and wings, a white belly and a yellow throat and breast. They have a complete white eye ring, no wing bars, and a thin pointed black bill. Adult males have a rusty brown patch on their crown, which is usually hard to see and often covered by gray feathers. Males will raise it slightly when agitated. Females and immature birds have a duller olive-grey head, and less bold yellow on their throat. Voice: The song of the nominate eastern subspecies consists of a rapid seewit-seewit-seewit-ti-ti-ti. Males sing from open perches on the nesting territory. The call sounds like a high seet. Western birds of the race ridgwayi have a slightly lower-pitched, richer song, and a sharper call note.

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When to see the Nashville Warbler

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Nashville Warbler

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 16 countries with regular records, and 6 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Martinique.

About the Nashville Warbler

The Nashville warbler is a small songbird in the New World warbler family, found in North and Central America. It breeds in parts of the northern and western United States and southern Canada, and migrates to winter in southern California and Texas, Mexico, and the north of Central America. It has a gray head and a green back, and its underparts are yellow and white.

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Easily confused with

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