Nashville Warbler

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Nashville warbler Vermivora ruficapilla
Identification Tips:
Length: 4 inches
Small, active, insect-eating bird
Thin, very pointed bill
White eye ring
Yellow throat, breast, and undertail coverts
White belly
Olive upperparts ...

Nashville Warbler
Vermivora ruficapilla
The Nashville Warbler (Vermivora ruficapilla) is a common migrant across much of the United States. The species breeds in parts of the northeastern U.S.

Nashville Warblers breed in a variety of habitats which may include, young mixed and deciduous woods, second growth clearings and edges, spruce bogs, and even Jack Pine plantations.

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Nashville Warbler
(Oreothlypis ruficapilla)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as a migrant in wooded areas of the lab.

Nashville Warbler
Vermivora ruficapilla (Wilson)
Status Fairly common in summer. Breeds. It arrives generally before mid-May (average 8 May, earliest 29 April) and is widely distributed over the province in summer.

Nashville Warbler (Vermivora ruficapilla)
Northen Paruola (Parula americana)
Northern Waterthrush (Seirus noveboracensis) ...

NASHVILLE WARBLER, Sylvia rubricapilla, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. iii. p. 120.
SYLVIA RUBRICAPILLA, Bonap. Syn., p. 87.
NASHVILLE WARBLER, Sylvia rubricapilla, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 412.

Nashville Warbler Vermivora ruficapilla. Uncommon in fall and rare in spring in Tennessee Valley. In Mountain and Gulf Coast regions, rare in spring and fall. In Inland Coastal Plain, rare in fall. Found in woodlands.

Nashville Warbler
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Orange-crowned Warbler
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...

Nashville Warbler
The Wood Warblers are a group of small often colourful passerine birds restricted to the New World. Most are arboreal, but some are more terrestrial. Most members of this family are insectivores.

The main family that we need to consider are the wood-warblers, and many of them have some yellow, especially in the throat, like Nashville Warbler, which has a nice white eye-ring, unlike the minimal eye-ring seen here.

A mostly brown warbler with a gray face, throat, and breast, white eye ring, orange crown (usually hidden), and yellow undertail coverts. Similar to the Virginia's and Nashville Warblers in appearance, ...

NASHVILLE WARBLER - 1 continues in vicinity of "Church parking lot" off
Rt. 101 in Hampton. Thanks JoAnn! Getting a bit late, but there are at
least 4 November records for this species in the state.
Common Yellowthroat - 2 ...

Nashville Warbler Oreothlypis ruficapilla: Forest Park, Queens, NY, 29 Apr
Northern Parula Parula americana: Forest Park, Queens, NY, 25 Apr
Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia: Van Saun Park, Paramus, NJ, 19 Apr ...

See also: Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Cape May Warbler