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#1360 · 🐦 birds

Nashville Warbler

🇳🇱 Nashvillezanger ·Leiothlypis ruficapilla

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe
Nashville Warbler, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Nashville warbler ( Leiothlypis 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. It has a gray head and a green back, and its underparts are yellow and white.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 33,358iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 33,358 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Nashville Warbler
Nederlands
Nashvillezanger
scientific name
Leiothlypis ruficapilla
class
Aves
order
Passeriformes
family
Parulidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
33,358
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Parulidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 979753, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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