The adult male pine warbler looks somewhat similar to the yellow-throated vireo which may cause some identification problems.

Their breeding habitats are open pine woods in eastern North America.

The first record for South America was a vagrant wintering female seen at Vista Nieve, Colombia, on 20 November 2002; this bird was foraging as part of a mixed-species feeding flock that also included wintering Blackburnian and Tennessee warblers.

[4] They forage slowly on tree trunks and branches by poking their bill into pine cones.

Their nests are deep, open cups, which are placed near the end of a tree branch.