Northern Parula
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northern parula
Parula americana 4½″ (11 cm). Bluish, with a yellow throat and breast and two white wing bars. A suffused greenish patch on back. The male's best mark is a dark breastband (indistinct or lacking in the female).
Voice: Song, a buzzy trill or rattle that climbs the scale and trips over the top: zeeeeeeeee-up. Also zh-zh-zh-zheeeeee.
Range: Se. Canada, e. U.S. Winters Florida, Mexico to W. Indies, Nicaragua.
West: Rare or casual vagrant west to Pacific states, but found annually in California (has bred there).
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Northern Parula
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Parulidae |
| Genus: | Setophaga |
| Species: | S. americana |
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| Setophaga americana (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Compsothlyphis americana |
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The Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) is a small New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida.[2]
This species is migratory, wintering in southern Florida, northern Central America, the West Indies and most of the Lesser Antilles. This species is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.[2]
The Northern Parula is one of the smaller Northern migratory warblers. Length is 10.8–12 cm (4.3–4.7 in) and body mass is 5–11 g (0.18–0.39 oz).[3] This species has mainly gray upper parts, with a greenish back patch and two white wing bars. The breast is yellowish shading into the white belly. The summer male has bluish and rufous breast bands and prominent white eye crescents. Females are duller and lack the breast bands.[2]
The breeding habitat is humid woodland with growths of Old Man's Beard lichen or Spanish moss. Northern Parulas nest in trees in clumps of these mosses, laying 3–7 eggs in a scantily lined cup nest.
These birds feed on insects and spiders. Their song is a click-like trill or buzz, zeeeeee-yip. Their call is a soft chip.
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2004). Parula americana. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 12 May 2006.
- ^ a b c Curson, Jon; Quinn, David; Beadle, David (1994). New World Warblers. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7136-3932-6.
- ^ "Northern Parula". All About Birds. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_parula/lifehistory.
- New World Warblers by Curson, Quinn and Beadle, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Parula americana |
- Northern Parula videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Northern Parula - Parula americana - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
- Northern Parula Information - South Dakota Birds and Birding
- Northern Parula Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Stamps (for Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Turks and Caicos Islands) with RangeMap
- Northern Parula photo gallery VIREO
- Northern Parula Bird Sound
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