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| Vermivora ruficapilla |
The Nashville Warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
These birds have olive-brown upperparts, a white belly and a yellow throat and breast; they have a white eye ring, no wing bars and a thin pointed bill. Adult males have a grey head with a rusty crown patch often not visible; females and immature birds have a duller olive-grey head.
Their breeding habitat is open mixed woods and bogs in Canada and the northeastern and western United States. The nest is an open cup well-concealed on the ground under shrubs.
These birds migrate to southern Texas, Mexico and Central America.
They forage in the lower parts of trees and shrubs; these birds mainly eat insects.
The song of this bird is a rapid seewit-seewit-seewit-ti-ti-ti. Western birds sing their song somewhat more slowly. The call is a high seet.
Although this bird was named after Nashville, it only visits that area during migration.