In song and mannerisms this bird is extremely "unwarbler." An individual which Chapman watched, sang about 5,250 notes in three hours! Observers agree the song resembles that of the Carolina Wren or Cardinal, and Burns states a flight song is sometimes delivered about dusk, during the nesting period. They walk with a dignified air seldom attained by small birds and lack the nervous movements of Wood Warblers.
Eastern United States from southern New York to Wisconsin, Iowa and eastern Nebraska, south to Gulf States and Texas.