Tag: american bird conservany

The Virginia’s Warbler is a small, pale-gray warbler of arid, brushy woodlands and shrubby canyons of the western United States. It’s closely related to the more widespread Nashville Warbler, and some scientists consider the two a superspecies — related species that evolved in isolation from one another and remain separated by geographical barriers. The two are also closely related to the Lucy’s Warbler, a species found further south in the Sonoran Desert.

But why is the Virginia’s Warbler, a western species, named after a state on the east