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Tennessee warbler

Leiothlypis peregrina · Family Parulidae

Leiothlypis peregrina

Family Parulidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Parulidae
GBIF occurrence records
1,608,765
Countries and territories with records
44
Tennessee warbler
Jerry Oldenettel · Tennessee Warbler 2.jpg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jerry Oldenettel · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 1,608,765 occurrence records from 44 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (60.2%), Canada (20.2%), Costa Rica (9%), Panama (2%) and Guatemala (1.9%); together they account for 93.3% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.087% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Leiothlypis peregrina combines the genus name Leiothlypis with the species epithet peregrina. The Warbla app catalog lists 6 species of the genus Leiothlypis; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Leiothlypis celata, Leiothlypis ruficapilla and Leiothlypis luciae.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 117 species of the family Parulidae. This species ranks 16th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Setophaga coronata. Its record count is 2.3 times the family average (702,186). The family Parulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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