Birdland: Little Wanderer
The Tennessee Warbler is clever enough to winter in Costa Rica. Come spring, this dainty, thin-billed species flies north, where it breeds in the boreal forest of Canada. Its name suggests that the bird comes from a certain southern state. Actually, the Tennessee Warbler’s vast U.S. migratory range stretches from Texas north though Colorado, Wyoming and Montana, and eastward all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. The species was given its name by the celebrated ornithologist Alexander Wilson based on a bird he encountered in — you guessed it — Tennessee. Photo by Mark Silverstein