Virginia's Warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae)
About the Virginia's Warbler
Virginia's warbler (Leiothlypis virginiae) is a species of New World warbler. Despite what its name may suggest, Virginia's warbler is not actually named after the American State of Virginia, which makes sense as the birds' typical range only reaches as far east as the state of Texas. The bird's common eastern range is central and southern mountains of Colorado, central Wyoming, and central and western New Mexico. The bird was named for Virginia Anderson, the wife of an army surgeon who discovered the bird at Fort Burgwin, New Mexico, in 1858. When Spencer Fullerton Baird of the Smithsonian Institution fully described the bird for science in 1860 he honored the wishes of the warbler's discoverer and designated Virginia to be both the bird's common and scientific name.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 97 recordings for this species: 9 CC BY-NC-SA · 4 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Mexico, United States in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
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- Orange-crowned WarblerLeiothlypis celatarecording
- Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrinarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.