A Colorful and Endearing Resident of North American Forests – Meet The Nashville Warbler!

The small warbler has a distinctly pointed bill and can be identified by its gray head, white eyering, yellow underparts, and olive upperparts.

Meet the Nashville Warbler

The New World warbler family is home to the Nashville warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla), a small songbird found throughout North and Central America. Both male and female Nashville warblers display a gray head that fades 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 typically covered by gray feathers, and will raise it slightly when agitated.

Females and immature birds have a duller olive-grey head, and less bold yellow on their throat.

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The Nashville warbler is closely related to the Virginia warbler, Lucy’s warbler, and the Colima warbler, with all four species sharing generally similar plumage.

Breeding occurs in parts of the northern and western United States and southern Canada, while wintering takes place in southern California and Texas, Mexico, and the north of Central America.

Western birds of the subspecies ridgwayi have a slightly lower-pitched, richer song, and a sharper call note. Nashville warblers forage by gleaning in the lower parts of trees and shrubs, frequently flicking their tails. During winter, they join together into loose flocks and sometimes join mixed-species feeding flocks.

These birds primarily feed on insects but will supplement their diet with berries and nectar in the winter.

The nominate subspecies of this warbler sings a rapid seewit-seewit-seewit-ti-ti-ti song from open perches on the nesting territory, while the call sounds like a high seet.

The Nashville warbler conceals its nest on the ground under shrubs, with the nest being an open cup made out of bark strips, leaves, and moss, and lined with fine materials such as feathers or hairs. Typically, four or five eggs are laid in a clutch and incubated for 11-12 days. Only the female incubates the eggs, but the male brings her food. Upon hatching, the young have no feathers except for some brown down, and their eyes are closed. Juveniles fledge and leave the nest 11 days after hatching.

This bird is regarded as of Least Concern on the IUCN Red Least.

You can watch this bird in action right here in the video below:

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