Nashville Warbler
Leiothlypis ruficapilla
The Nashville Warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) is a common new world warbler found in 22 countries, weighing about 8 g. The Nashville warbler is a small songbird in the New World warbler family, found in North and Central America.
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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How to identify it
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.
What the Nashville Warbler sounds like
Where it lives
Recorded as a rare visitor in Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Martinique.
When to see it
Best months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October, with peak activity in May. It is a summer visitor species across most of its range.
Easily confused with
Quick questions
- How do you identify a Nashville Warbler?
- The Nashville warbler is a small warbler. Full identification notes are on this page.
- How big is a Nashville Warbler?
- The Nashville Warbler is a tiny sized bird weighing about 8 g.
- Where can you see a Nashville Warbler?
- The Nashville Warbler occurs in 22 countries, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala and Bermuda.
- What does a Nashville Warbler sound like?
- You can listen to 3 field recordings of the Nashville Warbler on this page, contributed to xeno-canto under open licences.
- What birds look similar to a Nashville Warbler?
- The Nashville Warbler is most easily confused with the Tennessee Warbler, the Orange-crowned Warbler and the Lucy's Warbler.
- Is the Nashville Warbler endangered?
- The Nashville Warbler is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
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