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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 Tennessee Warbler is 11.5 cm long and weighs 8.5 g. The breeding male 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 Conifer ous or mixed woodland, especially Spruce . Tennessee Warblers nest on the ground, laying 4-7 eggs in a cup nest. These birds feed on Insect s 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 |
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