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Nashville Warbler
Leiothlypis ruficapilla
Audubon Illustration
John James Audubon, Birds of America (1827-1838). Public domain.
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About the Nashville Warbler
The Nashville warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) 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.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Leiothlypis ruficapilla
- Family
- New World Warblers
- Order
- Passeriformes
Similar species
Other members of the new world warblers family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- Altamira Yellowthroat Geothlypis flavovelata
- American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
- Bachman's Warbler Vermivora bachmanii
- Bay-breasted Warbler Setophaga castanea
- Belding's Yellowthroat Geothlypis beldingi
- Black-and-white Warbler Mniotilta varia
- Black-polled Yellowthroat Geothlypis speciosa
- Black-throated Blue Warbler Setophaga caerulescens
- Black-throated Gray Warbler Setophaga nigrescens
- Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
- Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
- Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata
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