Tennessee Warbler

(Leiothlypis peregrina)

Conservation Status
Tennessee Warbler
Photo by Paula Carroll
  IUCN Red List

LC - Least Concern

     
  NatureServe

N5B - Secure Breeding

SNRB - Unranked Breeding

     
  Minnesota

not listed

     
           
           
           
 
Description
 
 

The breeding male is bright olive-green on the back, wings, and rump. The head and nape of neck are pale a bluish-gray. The eyeline is black and the supercilium (eyebrow) is white. The underparts are all white but there may be a slight yellowish wash on the flanks or breast. The tail and wing feathers are dark gray. The non-breeding male is duller above with a grayish-green head and nape and a yellowish wash on the throat and breast.

The breeding female is similar to the male but has an olive-gray head and nape of neck, dusky eyeline, yellow eyebrow, and a yellowish wash on the throat and breast. The nonbreeding female has yellow underparts except for the undertail coverts, which are pale yellow.

 
     
 

Size

 
 

4½ to 5 in length

8 wingspan

 
     
 

Voice

 
   
 

A three-part call: four or five sharp notes followed by three double notes then eight or ten quick, higher-pitched notes, all lasting about four seconds; ticka-ticka-ticka-ticka swit-swit-swit chew-chew-chew-chew-chew-chew-chew-chew.

 
     
 

Similar Species

 
     
     
 
Habitat
 
 

Forest openings with tall shrubs and young deciduous trees.

 
     
 
Biology
 
 

Migration

 
 

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

 
     
 

Nesting

 
 

 

 
     
 

Food

 
 

Small insects, especially spruce budworm (Choristoneura sp.), berry juice and small berries, seeds, and flower nectar.

 
     
 
Distribution
 
 

Occurrence

 
 

Common to abundant migrant, rare breeder in

 
         
 

Maps

 
 

The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union All Seasons Species Occurrence Map

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
  Class Aves (birds)  
 

Order

Passeriformes (perching birds)  
 

Family

Parulidae (New World warblers, wood warblers)  
 

Genus

Leiothlypis  
       
 

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.

 
       
 

Synonyms

 
 

Oreothlypis peregrina

Sylvia peregrina

Vermivora peregrina

 
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       
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Paula Carroll
       

Tennesse Warbler spotted in southern MN

I had never seen one before. The bird groups I belong to say it is an immature Tennesee Warbler. Spotted in location almost to Iowa. South central Minnesota. He was eating on the canas flowers.

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Uploaded on Jun 2, 2011

Tennessee Warbler on his territory in the Maine boreal forest. © 2011 Garth McElroy

License at http://www.paya.com/videos/135193

   
       
  Tennessee Warbler (Emberizidae: Vermivora peregrina) Male, Close-up
Carl Barrentine
 
   
 
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Published on May 14, 2012

Photographed at Grand Forks, North Dakota (14 May 2012).

   
       
  Paruline obscure/Tennessee Warbler
Marc Bois
 
   
 
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Published on Mar 11, 2016

   
       
  Nashville Warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) Searching for Insects Boy Scout Woods High Island Texas
Colette Micallef
 
   
 
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Published on May 4, 2015

Nashville Warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) Searching for Insects Boy Scout Woods High Island, Galveston County Texas April 15, 2015

   
       
  Oreothlypis peragrina = TENNESSEE WARBLER foraging, preening
Rob Curtis
 
   
 
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Published on Mar 29, 2015

Oreothlypis peragrina = TENNESSEE WARBLER foraging, preening.

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Paula Carroll
8/21/2018

Location: Kiester, MN. In my yard.

I had never seen one before. The bird groups I belong to say it is an immature Tennesee Warbler. Spotted in location almost to Iowa. South central Minnesota. He was eating on the canas flowers.

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