The breeding male Tennessee Warbler is brown above and white below. The head is gray with a white supercilium and black eye stripe.
Females are duller, with a less contrasted head and yellow-tinged under-parts. Non-breeding and young birds are similar to the female, with first-winter birds being particularly yellow below.
The breeding habitat is coniferous or mixed woodland, especially Spruce. Tennessee Warblers nest on the ground, laying 4-7 eggs in a cup nest.
These birds feed on insects in summer, and numbers vary with the availability of Spruce Budworm. In winter they will also eat berries and nectar.
The song is a series of musical notes and trills. The call is a sharp sit.
This bird was named from a specimen collected in Tennessee where it may appear during migration.
Reference
New World Warblers by Curson, Quinn and Beadle, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6
Although slaves were numerous in W Tennessee, and to a lesser extent in Middle Tennessee, and free fls were subjected to a series of discriminatory regulations, the state was pro-Union; it voted in the presidential election of 1860 for its own John Bell, candidate of the moderate Constitutional Union party.
Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State", a nickname it earned during the War of 1812, in which volunteer soldiers from Tennessee played a prominent role especially during the Battle of New Orleans.
Tennessee was admitted to the Union in 1796 as the 16th state; it was created by taking the north and south borders of North Carolina and extending them with only one small deviation to the Mississippi River, Tennessee's western boundary.
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