Nashville Warbler

Vermivora ruficapillaOrder: PASSERIFORMES Family: Wood Warblers (Parulidae)

Codes: Common Name: NAWA Scientific Name: VERRUF ITIS Taxonomic No.: 178861

Breeding Location:

Forest edge, Bushes, shrubs, and thickets, Marshes, freshwater, Swamps

Breeding Type:

Monogamous, Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Common to fairly common

Egg Color:

White to creamy white with small brown spots

Number of Eggs:

4 - 5

Incubation Days:

11 - 12

Egg Incubator:

Both sexes

Nest Material:

Plant stems, pine needles, mosses and rabbit fur, with lining of finer materials.

Migration:

Migratory

General

Nashville Warbler: Small warbler with olive-green upperparts, bright yellow underparts, and white lower belly. Small cap is chestnut-brown, gray hood extends to back, and eye-ring is white. Female and juvenile are slightly duller and lack brown caps.

Range and 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.

Breeding and 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.

Foraging and Feeding

Nashville Warbler: Eats mostly insects; forages by gleaning food from foliage, usually in mid-levels of a forest.

Readily Eats

Sugar Water, Fruit, Nut Pieces

Vocalization

Nashville Warbler: Emits a loud, ringing "teebit-teebit-teebit, chipper-chipper-chipper-chipper", usually in two distinct segments.

Similar Species

Nashville Warbler: Mourning and MacGillivray's warblers lack yellow throats and complete white eye-rings.

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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.

● 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

Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

Belly

The ventral part of the bird, or the area between the flanks on each side and the crissum and breast. Flight muscles are located between the belly and the breast.

Cap

The area on top of the head of the bird.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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