Nashville Warbler

LC - Least Concern

N5B - Secure Breeding

SNRB - Unranked Breeding

not listed

The head is gray. There is a bold white eye ring. The upper parts are yellowish-green. The breast is yellow. The belly (between the legs) is white. Adult males have a bluish-gray head, a bright yellow throat, and a small reddish-brown patch on the crown, which can be raised when he is agitated but is otherwise covered with gray feathers and may not be visible. Females have a duller gray head and a pale yellow throat.

4½″ to 5″ in length

7½″ wingspan

Several paired notes followed by a short trill, lasting about three seconds:
see-it see-it see-it see-it see-it ti-ti-ti-ti-ti.

Connecticut Warbler (Oporonis agilis) is yellow between the legs.

Mourning Warbler (Geothlypis tolmiei) is yellow between the legs.

Wilson’s Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) is yellow between the legs.

Open, deciduous, coniferous, or mixed woodlands with shrubby understory, riparian woodlands, edges of forests and burned areas, cedar-spruce swamps, and abandoned fields

Late April to early June and late July to mid-October

Small insects, including caterpillars, flies, and aphids

Common to abundant migrant, common breeder

The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union All Seasons Species Occurrence Map

When Tennessee Warbler and Nashville Warbler were originally described in 1811 they were placed in the genus Sylvia. Later, that genus was restricted to Old World species and in 1929 they were moved to the genus Vermivora. More recently, several closely related Vermivora species were separated from that genus and placed in the genus Oreothlypis. In 2008, the new genus Leiothlypis was proposed to include Tennessee Warbler as the type species along with Nashville Warbler and four other species. The change was initially rejected but was finally accepted in 2019.

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Location: Mendota Heights, MN