Nashville Warbler
Oreothlypis ruficapilla
Summary 6
The Nashville warbler (Oreothlypis 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. Both male and female Nashville warblers have a gray head fading 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 usually hard to see and often covered by gray feathers. Males will raise it slightly when agitated. Females and immature birds have a duller olive-grey head, and less bold yellow on their throat. Adults are 4.3 to 5.1 inches long. The COSA lies in the migration range of the Nash ville warbler, so it may be spotted in the COSA in May and September.
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- (c) Laura Gooch, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/19474221@N08/4862883389
- (c) Laura Gooch, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/lgooch/6121895244/
- (c) Jerry Oldenettel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/jroldenettel/5684499579/
- (c) Jerry Oldenettel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/jroldenettel/7971143730/
- (c) Jerry Oldenettel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/jroldenettel/7971144316/
- Adapted by dirstine from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreothlypis_ruficapilla
