Tennessee Warbler
|
|
| Tennessee Warbler | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scientific classification | ||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||
| Binomial name | ||||||||||||||
| Vermivora peregrina (Wilson,, 1811) |
The Tennessee Warbler, Vermivora peregrina, is a New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across Canada and the northern USA. It is migratory, wintering in southern Central America. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
The breeding male Tennessee Warbler is brown above and white below. The head is gray with a white supercilium and black eye stripe.
Females are duller, with a less contrasted head and yellow-tinged under-parts. Non-breeding and young birds are similar to the female, with first-winter birds being particularly yellow below.
The breeding habitat is coniferous or mixed woodland, especially Spruce. Tennessee Warblers nest on the ground, laying 4-7 eggs in a cup nest.
These birds feed on insects in summer, and numbers vary with the availability of Spruce Budworm. In winter they will also eat berries and nectar.
The song is a series of musical notes and trills. The call is a sharp sit.
This bird was named from a specimen collected in Tennessee where it may appear during migration.
Reference
New World Warblers by Curson, Quinn and Beadle, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6