---
title: "Nashville Warbler"
description: "Leiothlypis ruficapilla — Vogels. The Nashville warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) is a small songbird in the New World warbler family, found in North and Central America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/nashville-warbler
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Nashville Warbler

> Leiothlypis ruficapilla — Vogels. The Nashville warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) is a small songbird in the New World warbler family, found in North and Central America.

- Scientific name: *Leiothlypis ruficapilla*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 32025
- iNaturalist taxon: [979753](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/979753)

## Names

- en: Nashville Warbler
- de: Rubinfleckwaldsänger
- es: Chipe Cabeza Gris
- fr: Paruline à joues grises

## Countries with the most observations

US (15285), MX (7548), CA (5479), GT (27), CR (6), BM (5), PA (4)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_warbler

## Photo

![Nashville Warbler](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/nashville-warbler/medium.jpg)

Photo: Fernando Pérez Peralta · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147004999

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/nashville-warbler?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).