- Vermivora ruficapilla
Identification
4 inches. Thin, very pointed bill, white eye ring, yellow throat, breast, and undertail coverts, white belly, olive upperparts, grey head, female and immature's is duller, more olive.
Distribution
Canada and northeastern United States, from central Alberta east to central Quebec south to northern Minnesota, Michigan, New York and Connecticut as well as along the Appalachians south to West Virginia; Western United States, from British Columbia and southwestern Saskatchewan south to southern California. Found in migration anywhere in the United States except rare in Montana, Wyoming and Florida.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Open mixed woods and bog habitats
Behaviour
They build an open cup-shaped nest on the ground under shrubs.
Diet includes insects.
