Description

All ages and sexes show a conspicuous white eyering and a yellow throat contrasting with a grey to green-grey head. The upperparts are olive while the underparts and undertail coverts are largely yellow. The crown may have some chestnut on it that is often hard to see.

The Nashville Warbler can be found in open mixed forests with shrubby undergrowth but also in bogs on the peripheries of conifer forests.

The eastern and western subspecies vary in their song. The eastern subspecies (ruficapilla) has a two-parted song, "seebit seebit seebit titititi." The second part of the western subspecies' song (ridgwayi) is slower and richer sounding.

immature Orange-crowned Warblers (split eyering), female Common Yellowthroats (no eyering).

Nesting occurs on the ground, usually under the cover of grasses, vegetation and bushes.
Foraging appears to be slow and deliberate at the ends of branches.
Two subspecies exist for the Nashville Warbler whose breeding ranges do not overlap. The western subspecies has a habit of bobbing its tail while the eastern subspecies does not.

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