Virginia's warbler Vermivora virginiae

Identification Tips:

• Length: 4.25 inches
• Small, active, insect-eating bird
• Thin, very pointed bill
• White eye ring
• Gray upperparts
• Grayish underparts with yellowish patch on breast
• Yellow rump and undertail coverts
• Plain gray wings
• Dark legs
• Females and immatures similar to males but somewhat paler and may have some buff on underparts

Similar species:

Lucy's Warbler is similar but lacks white eye ring and yellow rump and undertail coverts. Nashville Warbler has yellower underparts and more olive upperparts. Colima Warbler is larger and darker and its range is restricted to a small area in Texas.

Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.