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Northern Parula 
Conservation status Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Parulidae Genus: Parula Species: P. americana Binomial name Parula americana
(Linnaeus, 1758)Synonyms Compsothlyphis americana
Galveston, Texas Spring Migration
The Northern Parula, Parula americana, is a small New World warbler. It breeds in eastern North America from southern Canada to Florida.
Northern Parula High Island, TXThis 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.
The Northern Parula is 11 cm long and 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. 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. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- New World Warblers by Curson, Quinn and Beadle, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6
External links
- 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
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Parula
- Birds of North America
- Native birds of the Eastern United States
- Native birds of Eastern Canada
- Birds of the Greater Antilles
- Birds of the Lesser Antilles
- Birds of the Caribbean
- Birds of Puerto Rico
- Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula region
- Native birds of Southern Mexico
- Native birds of Eastern Mexico
- Eastern North American migratory birds
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