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Nashville warbler
Leiothlypis ruficapilla · Family Parulidae
Leiothlypis ruficapilla
Family Parulidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Parulidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,843,750
- Countries and territories with records
- 25
About this species
This species has 1,843,750 occurrence records from 25 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (70.8%), Canada (24.2%) and Mexico (4.8%); together they account for 99.7% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Leiothlypis ruficapilla combines the genus name Leiothlypis with the species epithet ruficapilla. 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 peregrina and Leiothlypis luciae.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 117 species of the family Parulidae. This species ranks 15th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Setophaga coronata. Its record count is 2.6 times the family average (702,186). The family Parulidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.