In the pine-covered strip between Lake Worth and the Everglades, Florida, I found these birds so numerous in February that their combined trills assumed almost the steady shrilling of peepers in an April night. I found them nearly as numerous among the pine barrens of Long Island in May where they searched the tree limbs with characteristic slow intensity. Tho they prefer pines their education has not advanced sufficiently to distinguish between pinus and tsuga for here in Dutchess County, New York, several pairs nest in our hemlock grove.
Eastern United States and southern British Provinces. Among the few Warblers wintering in southern part of its breeding range.