Nashville Warbler

Ruby stain Warbler ( Vermivora ruficapilla )

The ruby ​​stain Warbler ( Vermivora ruficapilla ) is a small insectivorous bird in the family of warblers ( Parulidae ).

Features

Ruby stain Warbler have upper hand an olive to olivbraunes spring dress, on the bottom is a whitish-yellow with a yellow belly, breast feathers and a yellow throat. To the black eyes is a white ring. In the male the head is gray and it has a rust colored to tawny Kronfleck on the head, which is, however, embedded in the head feathers so that it is often not visible. The females and young birds have a duller gray plumage on the head. Her legs are black.

Nutrition

They feed mainly on insects, which they flush in the lower regions of the trees and shrubs. Outside the breeding season they expand their diet to berries and seeds.

Reproduction

Your upwardly open cup-shaped nests, the females lay on well hidden in the thicket under bushes or in high vegetation. In the nest, the female lays four to five brown -spotted white eggs, hatching it after about eleven to twelve days. During the breeding season the female is fed by the male with food. Both parents to participate in the rearing of young birds.

Occurrence

Ruby stain Warbler nest among others in mixed deciduous forests or swamps in the north- west and west of North America, including Canada. In winter they move south Texas, Mexico and Central America.